Battle report: Victory in the Pacific

by Walter Karig

This book was prepared from Official Sources and it's purpose is to tell the story of the Navy's part in this war.

548 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Walter Karig (1898-1956) was a Captain in the U. S. Navy and wrote a number of books referring to World War II. He was also an author of television scripts for war-related programs like "Victory At Sea." For the Syndicate, he wrote volumes in the Perry Pierce series (2-4), Doris Force series (3-4), and Nancy Drew series (8-10). He earned a bad reputation with the Syndicate by writing to the Library of Congress and requesting authorial credit for the three Nancy Drew volumes he wrote. The Library staff assumed that he wrote all of the books. Both the fact that he revealed himself as "Carolyn Keene" and the mistake on the part of the library catalogers were a source of tremendous consternation for the Syndicate. At one point, Harriet S. Adams wrote to Mildred Wirt (the author of the first 25 volumes in the Nancy Drew series, except for the three written by Karig) and said that the Syndicate would rue the day that they ever hired Karig, and that if anyone could claim to be "Carolyn Keene" it would be Wirt.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

My wife found me a gem when she picked this one up at a sale. This narrative of the tail end of WW2 in the Pacific is compiled from piles of reports from pretty much every conceivable sort of naval vessel which was there. It's not particularly dry at all, although folks used to modern sensibilities may clutch their pearls at some of the less polite terms used to reference our at the time recently defeated enemies. There's even some cross pollination with the other services, especially with descriptions of the Enola Gay's mission and planning for Operation Olympic/Majestic's invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Several sets of pictures are an added bonus. I'm tempted to track down Volumes I-IV.