The Great Pacific War was a 1925 novel by Hector Charles Bywater which discussed a hypothetical future war between Japan and the United States. The novel accurately predicts a number of details about the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Bywater was a naval correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph. * a large role in the conflict for aircraft carrier-based aircraft, * suicidal tactics by Japanese aviators, * an island hopping strategy as the U.S. retakes the Pacific. Bywater died in August 1940, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.