Too Far on a Whim

Winner of the 2024 Lyman Book Award for Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment. In Too Far on a Whim , Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof’s research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the Imperial Japanese Navy, the US Navy succeeded despite its high-steam propulsion systems rather than because of them. War with an aggressive Japan and a res