Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, by America’s preeminent naval historian, Dr. Crag L. Symonds, provides the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War II, and whose leadership qualities have been exhibited by few other commanders in history. Symonds offers an absorbing and illuminating portrait of how the quiet, unassuming man from the Hill Country of Texas transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful naval force in history. Using Nimitz’s headquarters – the eye of the hurricane – as his vantage point, Symonds captures Nimitz’s composure, discipline, homespun wisdom, and most of all, his uncanny sense of when to assert authority and when to pull back.