‘It Came Out of the Blue’

Editor’s Note: I recently talked with the great Paul Kennedy about Pearl Harbor and the War in the Pacific. He is out with a gorgeously illustrated and hugely impressive (as usual) new book on the battle for the seas in World War II, Victory at Sea. I highly recommend that everyone check it out.

Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale and the author of numerous influential books, most famously The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.