Book Review: "Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan"

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

It really does. It's like the Mythbusters of WW2 books. They pull no punches in taking Fuchida apart. And the level of detail they get into when analyzing the battle is absolutely astounding.

That's the clincher. I'll try and get in the near future. I hear it takes Walter Lord's classic Midway book, Incredible Victory to task a bit as well.

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

That's the clincher. I'll try and get in the near future. I hear it takes Walter Lord's classic Midway book, Incredible Victory to task a bit as well.

Only for accepting Fuchida's account as being 100% true, which is true of just about every history of the battle. I always found that as being incredibly odd - "okay, we have a the written account of one person published 10 years after the battle - let's just accept it at face value and not do any research of our own!" Can you imagine if a third of what we know about 9/11 came from a firefighter who didn't even see the towers collapse, wasn't on duty due to an injury he'd previously sustained, and was a notorious liar?

Anyway, Anthony Tully, the co-author of Shattered Sword has a new book coming out within the month about the Battle of Surigao Strait. I've pre-ordered it, and I'm hoping it's at least half as good as Shattered Sword!