Bywater : the man who invented the Pacific War /William H. Honan.

A biography of British journalist and military writer Hector Charles Bywater, whose 1925 novel The Great Pacific War is widely believed to have been a primary resource for the Japanese military in planning its Pacific campaign during the Second World War. The book covers Bywater's early life and career as a naval correspondent for the New York Herald, his time serving as a British spy in Germany, and particularly his work on naval strategy and its influence on Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and consequently the events of the Second World War. Includes 16 pages of black and white plates.