Origin of the book

The original title was "Carrier Operations in WWII - An Operations Research Analysis". This was a pretty hard-core essay focusing on the game theory behind carrier battles. It wasn't really a proper book, it read more like a scientific paper. I submitted the text to a publisher. They were suitably impressed but thought that the audience was perhaps a bit too limited. I basically agreed.

I then uploaded the essay to my personal web site, free to download as a PDF, for search engines to index and others to find. The feedback I received encouraged me to make a full length book of it. The major addition was the battle accounts. I also weeded out all the math and added some general interest and background material. What was of general interest, was of interest to me as well, so I ended up adding quite a lot. The text was now triple the size of the original essay. The text then sat and matured for about two years. The first publisher was interested enough to accept a copy of the manuscript but after a year I still hadn't heard from them so I submitted the manuscript to Casemate. Within days they came back and said they were interested. The reason I chose Casemate was the book by Alan Zimm on Pearl Harbor. Of all the books I've read, that book was the one closest to mine in style and approach. I figured that if they liked his book, they'd like mine. They did.