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(More customer reviews)Admiral "Bull" Halsey is your typical by the number biography on one of our navy's great fighting admirals. A good comparison can be made to E.B. Potter's biography "Bull Halsey" that came out quite a long time ago. Both books covers the same portions of Halsey's life and career. The author of this book hopes to correct the imbalance he thought recent military history had on Halsey which is to magnify his errors instead of his greatness. But the book is fair in assessing Halsey's achievements and his flaws as a commander. Author makes no excuses to some of Halsey's mistakes but he conclude correctly that his achievements easily overshadows his errors.
I thought this book was well written and well balanced as biographies goes. But like E.B. Potter's book, this is a military biography and after reading it, you still don't have a slightest idea who Bull Halsey was outside of his military career. A good example would be this: We know that Halsey was avid racist specially toward the Japanese and this was even before Pearl Harbor. This book, like Potter's, gave us NO clue to why he dislikes the Japanese people so much. I suppose it would be simplistic to say that he hated all non-whites but this biography tells us nothing about the man, only about his career.
Overall, this book is worthy read if you haven't read E.B. Potter's book or if you didn't like Potter's book on Halsey. Otherwise, you can pass on it and wait for a more in-depth book at Halsy if there ever will be one.
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