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Summary: Decent retelling of a great battle
Review: This book, in my subjective view, is inferior to Walter Lord's excellent Incredible Victory which recounted the same battle. It lacks pace and descriptions of battle scenes are tame compared to Lord's version. What it lacks in narrative, this book compensates by giving detailed information on the fleets involved in this mortal struggle and providing intelligent retrospective factual analysis on the various decisive factors which led to an American victory and a heavy Japanese defeat. Overall a reasonable read, but for a more gripping and tense pulse pounding read, i would recommend Incredible Victory.
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Summary: Decent retelling of a great battle
Review: This book, in my subjective view, is inferior to Walter Lord's excellent Incredible Victory which recounted the same battle. It lacks pace and descriptions of battle scenes are tame compared to Lord's version. What it lacks in narrative, this book compensates by giving detailed information on the fleets involved in this mortal struggle and providing intelligent retrospective factual analysis on the various decisive factors which led to an American victory and a heavy Japanese defeat. Overall a reasonable read, but for a more gripping and tense pulse pounding read, i would recommend Incredible Victory.
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Summary: OK historical account of this famous battle
Review: This has been the only book I have read so far on the Battle of Midway. I have read previous books on Pearl Harbour by the same author and I was looking forward to a good account of this battle. Overall I found the book covered all the details with numerous first hand accounts from participants from both sides but it wasn't a book that held me spellbound and glued to the narrative. It was a good working text that gave you a thorough account of the battle and was unbiased in its approach. I am sorry to say however that I was looking for a little bit more to draw me into the story.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This is one book that you definately want to buy if you are interested in this battle. It tells the tale of this amazing battle from its roots to the very ending and analyzes the tactics and mistakes. Narrative is amazing and the appendices are very comperhensive.
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Summary: A good FACTUAL record of Midway
Review: This is the first book I've read on Midway and I must give the author his due, however, I found it to be a bit dry and short on the narrative (which was much ballyhooed on the cover). If you want 'just the facts' you'll like this book, otherwise look elsewhere.
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Summary: We believe this remains the definitive work on the subject.
Review: This work presents the best account of both sides -- the Japanese and the Americans -- of one of the most crucial battles in US Naval history. While additional research is ongoing, as of September 1, 1998, nothing has been published that supercedes what we have written. We (the US) were extremely lucky, and it was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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Summary: Probably the best book on the Battle of Midway
Review: While this is probably the best book on the Battle of Midway I noticed a couple of factual errors. The authors have fallen for one of the biggest myth of WWII in their account of the recovery of a crashed Zero. They stated that American designers tested the rebuilt plane and were able to counter its weaknesses and designed the Grumman Hellcat as a response. Totally, false, design work on the Hellcat and construction of a prototype was well underway by June 1942 and the captured enemy plane had no bearing on the Hellcat's design. This story has been repeated in so many historical works that it is rare to find a book on the Pacific War that does not mention it. Blatant mistakes like this, which can easily be checked, cast doubt on the credibility of the rest of the research.
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Summary: Bad maps -- good book.
Review: Why is that so many good battle histories lack decent maps? The maps in this book, to use a adjective favored by my grandchildren,[are bad]. Prange's prose is dense and detailed and the absence of good maps limits the ability of the reader to understand him. This is a good book -- maybe the best about Midway, the most important battle of the Pacific War. People these days seem to forget that in 1942, Americans were probably more worried about Japan than they were about Germany. Prange tells the story of Midway from both the Japanese and the American side. The insights from military leaders -- now virtually all dead -- make this an irreplacable source of information on the battle. I suggest a new deluxe edition of this book -- rewritten in places to improve the comprehensibility of the prose and with detailed maps, timelines, a glossary of military terms, and more photos of the battle and the equipment in use. I would like to see, for example, photos of the many different aircraft participating in the battle.
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Summary: Bad maps -- good book.
Review: Why is that so many good battle histories lack decent maps? The maps in this book, to use a adjective favored by my grandchildren,[are bad]. Prange's prose is dense and detailed and the absence of good maps limits the ability of the reader to understand him. This is a good book -- maybe the best about Midway, the most important battle of the Pacific War. People these days seem to forget that in 1942, Americans were probably more worried about Japan than they were about Germany. Prange tells the story of Midway from both the Japanese and the American side. The insights from military leaders -- now virtually all dead -- make this an irreplacable source of information on the battle. I suggest a new deluxe edition of this book -- rewritten in places to improve the comprehensibility of the prose and with detailed maps, timelines, a glossary of military terms, and more photos of the battle and the equipment in use. I would like to see, for example, photos of the many different aircraft participating in the battle.
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