Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto (?? ??? Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was the commander of the Japanese Navy for the first four years of World War II. He is generally regarded to be Japan's greatest naval strategist of the war, and among the greatest naval strategists in history.

Further reading

• Agawa, Hiroyuki; Bester, John (trans.), The Reluctant Admiral (Kodansha, 1979), ISBN 4770025394. The definitive biography of Yamamoto in English. This book explains much of the political structure and events within Japan that lead to the war, with many details unfamiliar to most Americans.
• Hoyt, Edwin P., Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor (McGraw-Hill, 1990), ISBN 158574428X.
• Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-45. University of Pittsburgh Press, Copyright 1991. ISBN 0822954621. A high-level view of the war from the Japanese side is within the diaries of Yamamoto's Chief of Staff, Admiral Matome Ugaki. Here will be found evidence of the intentions of the imperial military establishment to seize Hawaii and to operate in the Indian Ocean. Translated by Masataka Chihaya, this edition contains extensive clarifying notes from the U. S. editors derived from the U. S. military histories.