num_pages: 346
description: Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto smashed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, yet the man who first conceived of the Pacific war -- Japan's surprise attack, the seizure of the Philippines &amp; Guam, &amp; the American island-hopping campaign -- was a British naval correspondent, Hector C. Bywater. He wrote a series of brilliant books &amp; articles in the 1920s &amp; 1930s that prophetically outlined naval strategies that would read like a blueprint for the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bywater's ideas created an uproar &amp; then were quickly forgotten. But Yamamoto adopted Bywater's ideas as his own. Photos.
language: English
title: Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor
titlecomplete: Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor
genres: History
ratings_count: 10
publisher: St Martins Pr