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H.C. Bywater was a second son of a middle class Welshman. The family had emigrated into the United States in 1901. At age of 19 he started part time job writing naval articles for the [[New York Herald]] newspaper and later was sent as foreign correspondent to London. Here he became naval spy for Britain. In 1915 he was sent back to America, to investigate suspicious activity on New York's docks; year later he returned to London to analyze naval data and documents. |
H.C. Bywater was a second son of a middle class Welshman. The family had emigrated into the United States in 1901. At age of 19 he started part time job writing naval articles for the [[New York Herald]] newspaper and later was sent as foreign correspondent to London. Here he became naval spy for Britain. In 1915 he was sent back to America, to investigate suspicious activity on New York's docks; year later he returned to London to analyze naval data and documents. |
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In his 1921 book ''Sea-power in the Pacific : a study of the American-Japanese naval problem'' he predicted naval conflict between [[Imperial Japan]] and the [[USA]] and expanded the topic further in 1925 book [[The Great Pacific War]]. Here Bywater correctly predicted many actions taken by both the Japanese and the Americans, including the [[Pearl Harbor attack]]. |
In his 1921 book ''Sea-power in the Pacific : a study of the American-Japanese naval problem'' he predicted naval conflict between [[Imperial Japan]] and the [[USA]] and expanded the topic further in 1925 book ''[[The Great Pacific War]]''. Here Bywater correctly predicted many actions taken by both the Japanese and the Americans, including the [[Pearl Harbor attack]]. |
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Revision as of 06:05, 25 October 2008
Hector Charles Bywater (October 21, 1884 in London - August 16 or 17, 1940 in London) was a British journalist and military writer.
H.C. Bywater was a second son of a middle class Welshman. The family had emigrated into the United States in 1901. At age of 19 he started part time job writing naval articles for the New York Herald newspaper and later was sent as foreign correspondent to London. Here he became naval spy for Britain. In 1915 he was sent back to America, to investigate suspicious activity on New York's docks; year later he returned to London to analyze naval data and documents.
In his 1921 book Sea-power in the Pacific : a study of the American-Japanese naval problem he predicted naval conflict between Imperial Japan and the USA and expanded the topic further in 1925 book The Great Pacific War. Here Bywater correctly predicted many actions taken by both the Japanese and the Americans, including the Pearl Harbor attack.
Books
- Archibald Hurd (1869-1959) and H.C. Bywater: From Heligoland to Keeling Island : one hundred days of naval war, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1914.
- H.C. Bywater: Sea-power in the Pacific : a study of the American-Japanese naval problem, Constable, London, 1921.
- H.C. Bywater: The great Pacific war : a history of the American-Japanese campaign of 1931-33, Constable, London, 1925. Published again in Boston, 1942 as The great Pacific war : a historic prophecy now being fulfilled.
- H.C. Bywater: Navies and nations : a review of naval developments since the Great War, Constable, London, 1927.
- H.C. Bywater: A searchlight on the Navy, Constable, London , 1934.
- H.C. Bywater and Herbert Cecil Ferraby (1884-1942): Strange intelligence : memoirs of naval secret service , London, 1934.
- H.C. Bywater: Cruisers in battle : naval 'light cavalry' under fire, 1914-1918, Constable, London, 1939.
Literature
- William H. Honan,: Visions of Infamy, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991; ISBN 0-312-05434-8.
External links
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