Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway - Hardcover

Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574889230 ISBN 13: 9781574889239

Publisher: Potomac Books, 2005

Synopsis

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida’s Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, an uncritical reliance upon which has tainted every previous Western account. It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.

Parshall and Tully examine the battle in detail and effortlessly place it within the context of the Imperial Navy’s doctrine and technology. With a foreword by leading World War II naval historian John Lundstrom, Shattered Sword is an indispensable part of any military buff’s library.

Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the "Best Book in U.S. Naval History" and was cited by Proceedings as one of its "Notable Naval Books" for 2005.

About this title

Book Description:

"Provides a much-needed reassessment of the Battle of Midway.... The chapters devoted to the actual battle are a treat, starting with an in-depth description of Japanese flight deck procedures and activities, something rarely detailed in Western publications. This new treatment is basically the Battle of Midway as seen through Japanese eyes.... The authors are to be congratulated. Writing on a topic that might not first seem to have anything new to be divulged, they have created something that is as fresh and vital as if it were the first account written at war's end instead of more than sixty years later. I believe that Shattered Sword will become the preeminent narrative history of this crucial battle, and I consider it to be one of the most important books on WWII naval operations to be published in the last twenty years."

From the Publisher:

Told from the Japanese perspective, using largely Japanese sources, with new interpretations of the Imperial Navy's actions; Represents the first substantive contribution to the West's understanding of Midway in more than a generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1574889230
• ISBN 13: 9781574889239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640