'I was born into the Navy. . . East Asia was a part of my life'
Interview By James D. Hornfischer
The bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts interviews one of the venerable deans of Pacific naval history - a scholar who literally grew up with the subject matter.
In his youth, William R. Braisted followed his father's naval assignments to a life in China, Japan, and the Philippines. Those experiences were the foundation of a distinguished career as a historian of the U.S. Navy's role in the Far East in the decades before World War II. His three books - The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897 - 1909 (1958), The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909 - 1922 (1971), and Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922 - 1933 (2009) - trace America's path toward engagement with the Far East and war with Japan.
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Mr. Hornfischer is the author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (2004), about the Battle off Samar, which Naval History recently selected as one of a dozen all-time classic Navy history books, and Ship of Ghosts (2006), both published by Bantam Books. His third book, Neptune's Inferno, about the naval campaign for Guadalcanal, will be published by Bantam in 2010.
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