About the Author

A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, James M. Scott is the author of The War Below and The Attack on the Liberty, which won the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Reviews

"In Target Tokyo, James M. Scott, an accomplished naval historian, vividly narrates the saga of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle's audacious raid, undoubtedly one of the greatest exploits of World War II...the story has been covered many times before, but never so fully as here." -- Alexander Rose - Wall Street Journal "Historian James M. Scott uncovers fresh material to provide an extraordinarily complete account of the 1941 Doolittle US air raid on Tokyo and its aftermath. The basic story is familiar but Scott tells it in so gripping a fashion that it will have great appeal for both World War II buffs and general readers." -- Terry Hartle - Christian Science Monitor "[A] breakthrough work of popular history." -- Michael Giltz - Huffington Post "A fantastic story, fantastically told." -- The Charleston Mercury "Marvelous...undoubtedly the most comprehensive account yet... [A] page-turner." -- Tony Perry - Los Angeles Times "[A] brilliant tale of adventure and bravery...the telling is fresh and packs a wallop that puts it up with the best of World War II combat stories." -- Edward Cuddihy - Buffalo News "Target Tokyo is one of the most incredible accounts of American military valor I've ever read." -- Pat Conroy "Scott's narrative, which draws deeply on new archival sources, will certainly take its place as the definitive history of the Doolittle raid. That alone would be reason enough to recommend it - but Target Tokyo is also a terrific story and a cracking good read." -- Ian Toll, author of Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 "The Doolittle raid on Tokyo was one of the most impossible, daring, and consequential missions ever taken by American military men, and James Scott brings it back to the reader with you-are-there immediacy and drama. Filled with great characters, great heroism, and great suffering, Target Tokyo is at once thorough, realistic, and thrilling." -- Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder and Ike's Bluff

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