Their Secret Purposes: Dramas and Mysteries Of The Naval War (1932) By Hector C. Bywater
Dramas and Mysteries of the Naval War in the First World War.
Hector Charles Bywater (21 October 1884 in London - 16 or 17 August 1940 in London) was a British journalist and military writer.
Hector Charles Bywater (1884–1940) was a talented and prolific journalist, writer, and commentator on naval affairs. His books, evaluations, and articles were discussed both inside and outside naval circles in Asia, the United States, and Europe.
He has been compared to Alfred Thayer Mahan, but his writings never became classics the way Mahan’s work did—perhaps because Bywater was an analyst rather than an independent thinker.
Today, Bywater is only mentioned in connection with the discussion about whether he gave Japan the inspiration for the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, or somehow prophesized the attack. It is time to reintroduce Hector C. Bywater to the world and remember him as an expert who grappled with contemporary naval questions and developed a deep understanding of the challenges inherent in the revolution of naval technology and the development of the modern warship from the end of the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th century.
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