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Title: Incredible Victory (Classics of War) by Walter Lord ISBN: 1-58080-059-9 Publisher: Burford Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very well written
Comment: Incredible Victory is a great telling of the events on the Battle of Midway. As events are occurring, you will 1st get the Japanese side and next you'll get the American side or vise versa. The book is written well. It is hard to put down; very interesting. Walter Lord has a good writing style. I was enjoying his book so much that before I was half way through it, I ordered his "Day of Infamy". I would buy this book again.
Rating: 4
Summary: Like the History Channel?
Comment: When I was in high school, one of my assignments as a junior was to write a term paper, no less than fifteen pages, for my english class. I chose to write about the battle of Midway, because I'd heard a little about the signal intelligence that helped the Navy to know where to concentrate the Pacific Fleet, and found this book as a spectacular example of a few days broken down into manageable pieces. Lord's stories describe the demise of the four Japanese carriers sent to destroy the US presence on the Midway atoll, as well as the courage of the American pilots, who lost 42 of 52 torpedo planes against the Japanese fleet before American dive bombers caught the Japanese off guard. Though long, despite all the damage I've done to my brain since high school, I still remember certain parts of this book, about the retirement of a portrait of the Emperor, or a group of airmen in the water, or the tension surrounding the doomed Lexington. Enjoy, history buffs.
Rating: 5
Summary: Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, take a back seat
Comment: Wow! Although the outcome of this battle is a given, I cannot remember a more thrilling, edge-of-the-seat read than this one. Truth is indeed more exciting than fiction, or at least it can be when the right author relates the tale. Mr Lord has shown us just how contingent and unpredictable history can be -- although nearly everything we threw at the japanese was shrugged off by the emperor's men, when we finally succeeded, it was a magnificent triumph that no one would believe if it had happened in a story. Lord's book is well-documented and he tells us a few new things about this battle -- for instance, although we had supposedly cracked the japanese code, it was more like a few bits of information rather than the entire plan.
I'd recommend it highly, but only if you have a good heart and a tolerance for intensity.
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Title: Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story by Mitsuo Fuchida, Masatake Okumiya, Thomas B. Buell, Clarke H. Kawakami, Roger Pineau, Raymond A. Spruance ISBN: 1557504288 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy ISBN: 0805070869 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Miracle at Midway by Gordon William Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon ISBN: 0140068147 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: God Is My Co-Pilot by Robert Lee Scott ISBN: 0345355369 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Lieutenant Ramsey's War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander by Edwin Price Ramsey, Stephen J. Rivele ISBN: 1574880527 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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