Shattered Sword, Jonathan Parshall
Shattered Sword, Jonathan Parshall
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Shattered Sword
The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Author: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully, John B. Lundstrom

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 24 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/16/2019

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 US naval history" and was cited by Proceedings as one of its "notable naval books" for 2005.

About Jonathan Parshall

Jonathan Parshall was a member of a 1999 mission to the Midway battle site by the Nauticos Corp. and the US Navy Oceanographic Office. Parshall is widely published on naval history in journals and magazines and has contributed to a number of books on the topic. Parshall lives in Minneapolis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sweetwilliam on November 13, 2019

I always thought that a stroke of good fortune was the reason for the United States Navy’s victory over at Midway. Others may say it was divine providence. The authors of Shattered Sword do not see it this way. They break down the Japanese Naval war machine step by step, and weigh each factor that c......more

Goodreads review by Boudewijn on December 11, 2019

Parshall and Tully deal with some of the fallacious ideas around the Battle of Midway. These are either untrue, or at least require careful clarification. Some of these ideas have been implanted in the Western accounts as a result of misunderstandings of the records of the battle. Some have resulted......more

Goodreads review by Sumit on September 18, 2014

A full five star, Often we hear that History being written by Victor and get shrouded in myths. However Battle at Midway was one of rare event where both victor and loser painted a image which served there purposes in specific circumstances well. America was able to portray it's Navy as real life ex......more

Goodreads review by Dwayne on October 28, 2023

What you thought you knew about the battle of Midway could be quite wrong. This book goes into detail about the entire conflict there. The record of the Japanese is corrected. If you're interested in WWII, you should read this.......more

Goodreads review by Chad on August 01, 2024

When most people hear the term ‘history book,’ they typically think of those watered-down texts we all read in high school where large swaths of time are melted down into paragraph-sized blubs to be memorized for a test and quickly forgotten. Even so, many of us – myself included – have become infat......more

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