The Great Pacific War

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′The Great Pacific War was a 1925 novel by Hector C. Bywater which discussed a hypothetical future war between Japan and the United States. The novel accurately predicts a number of details about the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Bywater was a naval correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph.

In The Great Pacific War, the war begins with a Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Formosa and Korea. Japan then stages a surprise attack which results in the nearly complete destruction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The novel features numerous other accurate predictions, such as

"Infamy" by John Toland; Toland states that Isoroku Yamamoto was in US in 1925 and might have read NY book review on this book. '' Admiral Richardson warned Franklin Roosevelt the danger of too many fleet in the Harbor on8th of October,1940, one month before election, which the President disregarded and replaced him early next year.

• a large role in the conflict for aircraft carrier-based aircraft
• suicidal tactics by Japanese aviators
• an island hopping strategy as the U.S. retakes the Pacific

Bywater died in August of 1940, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.