William H. Bartsch is the author of a number of books and articles in the diverse fields of employment in developing countries and history of the Pacific War. His book Doomed at the Start, a study of the experiences of American pursuit pilots in the Philippines in 1941-42, was also published by Texas A&M University Press. Bartsch currently works as a consultant on national human resources planning and lives in Reston, Virginia.
"William Bartsch has produced a very solid account and analysis of war in the Philipines in 8 December 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor. This is a minute-by-minute study of what happened in the air on both sides based upon both intense scrutiny of the archives in Washington and in Tokyo, and careful use of many oral interviews, some conducted by the author and the others mined from official archives of the day. The result is a fast-faced, excellent melange of the complexities of three-dimensional air warfare. On the one hand of the experienced Japanese with their Chinese-experience and on the other hand of the mentally and physically unprepared U.S. Army Air Forces [six] aware of the 1940 Battle of Britain but without either the superstructure or underpinnings to emulate that success."--Robin Higham, Kansas State University
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