The Turning Tide: A Novel of Love and War

By James Stavridis.

Victory does not simplify the decisions of the people fighting toward it. In this Pacific War novel, James Stavridis follows Scott Bradley James through the demands of combat and command, where personal loyalties meet the obligations of service.

The book offers a discussion of judgment under pressure: what leadership asks of a person, what love can sustain and what war makes difficult to preserve. Those tensions connect the scale of a naval campaign to the private lives caught within it.

Scott Bradley James faces the later Pacific War, from Leyte Gulf through Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as combat, command and relationships test his judgment and loyalties.

Hardcover publication date: November 10, 2026.

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