Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Edwin Palmer Hoyt Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 3, 1928 Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Died | July 29, 2005 (aged 76) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Military history |
Edwin Palmer Hoyt Jr. (August 5, 1923 – July 29, 2005) was an American writer and historian who specialized in military history. Until 1958, Hoyt worked in news media, after which he produced non-fiction works.
Early life
He was born in Portland, Oregon to the publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt (1897–1979)[1] and his wife, the former Cecile DeVore (1901–1970).[2] A younger brother, Charles Richard, was born in 1928. Hoyt attended the University of Oregon from 1940 to 1943.
Career
In 1943, Hoyt's father, then the editor and publisher of
Edwin Hoyt subsequently worked as an
Starting in 1958, Hoyt became a full-time writer, and for a few years (1976 to 1980) he served as a part-time lecturer at the
Hoyt died in Tokyo, Japan on July 29, 2005, after a prolonged illness. He was survived by his wife Hiroko, of Tokyo, and three children, Diana, Helga, and Christopher, all residing in the U.S.
Selected works
- Jumbos and Jackasses: A Popular History of Political Wars. New York: Doubleday (1960) OCLC 1313217
- Stamp Collecting. Duell, Sloan & Pearce (1965)
- The OCLC 740453
- The Last Cruise of the OCLC 1394730
- 2001: ISBN 1585743828
- 2001:
- The Army Without A Country. Macmillan: New York (1967) OCLC 843778
- The American Attitude: The Story of the Making of Foreign Policy in the United States. Abelard (1970) OCLC 128452
- OCLC 329290
- OCLC 1128815
- Blue Skies and Blood: OCLC 1573089
- Chilton Book Co, PA (1976)
- U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America. NY: Stein & Day (1978) OCLC 3845550
- McCampbell's Heroes: The Navy's Most Celebrated Carrier Fighters of the Pacific War, reprint, NY: Avon.
- Storm over the Gilberts: War in the Central Pacific: 1943, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978, reprint, NY: Avon, 1983, ISBN 0-380-63651-4.
- To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific: 1944, reprint, NY: Avon.
- Closing the Circle: War in the Central Pacific: 1945, reprint, NY: Avon.
- USS Constitution: The Exciting Story of Old Ironsides, Pinnacle Books INC, NY (1976) ISBN 0-523-00866-X
- The Men of the ISBN 0839757905
- Guerilla: Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeckand Germany's East African Empire. Macmillan (1981)
- The Pusan Perimeter. NY: Stein and Day (1984) OCLC 10483199
- On To The Yalu. NY: Stein and Day (1984) ISBN 0-8128-2977-8
- The Militarists: The Rise of ISBN 0917657179
- Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict, 1853 to 1952. NY: McGraw (1986) OCLC 12722494
- Hitler's War (1988) ISBN 0-07-030622-2
- The GI's War: The Story of American Soldiers in Europe in WW II. McGraw-Hill (May 1988) OCLC 17107693
- The Rise of the Chinese Republic. McGraw-Hill (1989) ISBN 0-07-030619-2
- OCLC 23766658
- 199 Days: The ISBN 978-0-312-85463-8
- Angels of Death: ISBN 0312856687
- ISBN 0471591513
- Inferno: The ISBN 978-1-56833-149-2
- The Last ISBN 978-0-313-36065-7
References
- ^ Ennis, Thomas W. (27 June 1979). "Palmer Hoyt, 82, Dies in Denver; Ex‐Editor and Publisher of Post". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Denver Public Library EAD ProjectINTRODUCTION". eadsrv.denverlibrary.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-08. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
- ^ The Denver Public Library. Retrieved October 4, 2009.
- "Edwin P(almer) Hoyt, Jr." in Contemporary Authors Online(2009). Gale Publishing. Retrieved October 4, 2009.
