From Baird Online:
The battle of Midway has been controversial ever since it was in progress. This very carefully researched and very well presented book will add considerably to the controversy. The author is a very experienced and prolific maritime historian. He has apparently put much more time and effort into this book than his previous titles.
This research has been valuable and it shows. Not content to follow the party line on conventional wisdom, he has delved deep and wide and uncovered considerable new and valuable material. In particular, he has included a number of previously unpublished eye-witness accounts along with considerable new material from Japanese sources. His bibliography is incredibly extensive and reflects the breadth of his research.
It is very clearly pointed out, as the book's title emphasises, that the battle was a close run one, for a winner. Above all, it was the US Navy's Dauntless dive bombers and their courageous crews that turned disaster into victory in the space of five minutes. A gem in the military historians' crown.
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