Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
"Extensively researched, soundly reasoned, and engagingly and colorfully written..." --Robert J. Cressman, editor and principal author of "A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway""To really know about the Battle of Midway, you must read this book." --John B. Lundstrom, author of "The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway""The best naval history book of 2005."  --The Naval Review"At last, the Japanese side of the Battle of Midway has been limned in English with accuracy, lucidity, authority, and objectivity. The authors' specialized knowledge of the tactics and technologies of Japanese naval air power, their careful reading of surviving Japanese air unit records, and their appreciation of the larger meaning of the battle combine to give us a combat narrative and analysis that superbly balance expert detail and grand historical import. I suspect it of being a classic."   --Mark R. Peattie, author ofKaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941andSunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941"Why would anyone who has read Walter Lord, Gordon Prange, and Mitsuo Fuchida on this subject think that anything more is to be said, especially by a couple of relatively unknown writers? The short answer is, simply, get this book. Parshall and Tully have pulled off what every author/historian aspires to do: take the body of literature on a chosen topic to a level of insight and understanding not formerly attained or perhaps even imagined....Shattered Swordcan justifiably be labeled a groundbreaker, a landmark work that belongs at eye-level center in any naval historian's bookcase."  --Naval History