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Product Description: Elliot Carlson s biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy s decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy s code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was...read more
By Elliot Carlson and Donald Showers (foreword by)
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9781612510606 | Naval Inst Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Elliot Carlson s biography of Capt.

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Product Description: There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever...read more
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9780195397932 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 5, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway.

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Product Description: After Japan s devastating attack on U.S. forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, it seemed the Japanese ruled the seas. The United States, determined to stop Japan from expanding its empire, entered World War II. In June 1942, as a massive Japanese force bore down on the islands of Midway, U...read more
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9781612280783 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 15, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After Japan s devastating attack on U.

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Product Description: In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War battle of World War II (1939-1945)...read more
By Howard Gerrard (illustrator) and Mark Stille
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9781846035012 | Osprey Pub Co, September 21, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific.

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Product Description: These paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morison s multivolume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by the Naval Institute Press with new introductions by noted military historians. The fourteen volumes in the series will be published over a three-year period...read more
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9781591145509, titled "Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-aug 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II" | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, September 15, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: These paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morison s multivolume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by the Naval Institute Press with new introductions by noted military historians.

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Examines the military policies of the Allied and Japanese forces and describes the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway
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9780870210921 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Examines the military policies of the Allied and Japanese forces and describes the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

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Product Description: The second part of H. P. Willmott's three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring long-term security and resolving her immediate problems of access to raw materials and of an unwinnable war in China...read more
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9781591149491 | Naval Inst Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The second part of H.

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Product Description: Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.
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9780516259567 | Childrens Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Recounts the successful American battle to defend the Pacific Ocean naval base against a Japanese invasion and attempt to destroy the U.

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9780516220055 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Recounts the successful American battle to defend the Pacific Ocean naval base against a Japanese invasion and attempt to destroy the U.

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9781439523490 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains Battle of Midway | About this edition: Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.

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Product Description: Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.
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9781439523490, titled "The Battle of Midway" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains The Battle of Midway | About this edition: Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.
9780613516211 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the successful American battle to defend the Pacific Ocean naval base against a Japanese invasion and attempt to destroy the U.

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Product Description: This is an in-depth study of the battle of Midway that reviews the many previous accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity with fresh documentation that has been released recently, including new material on the post-war analysis made by a US select committee...read more
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9781844155835 | Pen & Sword, March 4, 2008, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This is an in-depth study of the battle of Midway that reviews the many previous accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity with fresh documentation that has been released recently, including new material on the post-war analysis made by a US select committee.

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Product Description: Midway, the most famous naval battle in American history, has been the subject of many excellent books. However, none satisfactorily explain why the Japanese lost that battle, given their overwhelming advantage in firepower...read more
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9780253349040 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Midway, the most famous naval battle in American history, has been the subject of many excellent books.

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Product Description: The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest U.S. naval victory, but behind the luster is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the 51 planes sent to attack Japanese carriers only 7 returned, and of the 127 aircrew only 29 survived...read more
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9780300109894 | Yale Univ Pr, November 11, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Describes the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons during the Battle of Midway and discusses the reasons for their downfall, including running out of gas, having malfunctioning torpedoes, and using inexperienced pilots.

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9780300122640 | Yale Univ Pr, May 28, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest U.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781574889239 | Potomac Books Inc, November 30, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War.

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Product Description: The BATTLES IN FOCUS seriesThis new series of paperback military history originals is set to revolutionize how selected conflicts and characters of history are studied. In comparison with other mid-format paperback series they contain extensive textual coverage - 50-55000 words - and are written by noted scholars and experts in the subjects, rather than non-specialist writers offering brief and inadequate coverage of a theme...read more
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9781857533385 | Brasseys Uk Ltd, February 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The BATTLES IN FOCUS seriesThis new series of paperback military history originals is set to revolutionize how selected conflicts and characters of history are studied.

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Product Description: This landmark study of the Battle of Midway is widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned the tide of war in the Pacific. Told from the viewpoint of two Japanese naval aviators who fought in the battle, it provides an unsparing analysis of the causes of Japan's staggering defeat...read more
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9781557505750 | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 1992), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Considered the best account available of the Japanese view of the battle.

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9781557504289 | Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This landmark study was first published in English by the Naval Institute in 1955 and was added to the Classics of Naval Literature series in 1992.

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9781591142935 | Unabridged edition (Naval Inst Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This landmark study of the Battle of Midway is widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned the tide of war in the Pacific.

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Product Description: One of the most important naval battles in history, Midway was fought barely six months after the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The badly damaged USS Yorktown was repaired in just 48 hours and with Enterprise and Hornet set out to meet the Japanese...read more
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9780275982768 | Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: One of the most important naval battles in history, Midway was fought barely six months after the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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9781855323353 | Osprey Pub Co, January 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months after the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Product Description: ".at one stroke the dominant position of Japan in the Pacific was reversed."--Winston ChurchillIn 1942, Admiral Yamamoto, who had so successfully engineered the attack on Pearl Harbor, implemented a new strategy: the Imperial Japanese Army would seize the Pacific island of Midway and lure the US Navy into a decisive carrier battle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780304357154 | Cassell, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: ".

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A famed ocean explorer, discoverer of the Titantic, offers an illustrated chronicle of a search for the ships sunk during the Battle of Midway, including the Yorktown, and features reminiscences from American and Japanese veterans of the conflict. TV tie-in. BOMC & History.
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9780792275008 | Natl Geographic Society, October 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Provides an account of the 1942 battle of Midway and the high-tech hunt for the lost ships fifty-six years later

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Amazon.com Review: This biography of a doomed aircraft carrier follows in the popular tradition of Stephen E. Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation--it's a book about sailors, not admirals. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jeff Nesmith interviewed dozens of the men assigned to the USS Yorktown, which would sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Midway "six months almost to the hour after the bombing of Pearl Harbor...read more
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9781563525520 | Taylor Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Recounts the Battle of Midway, using diaries, Japanese naval records, and interviews, and explains the significance of the U.S. victory
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9780060126926 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1967, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: An account of the personal heroism of men and the course of events that led to the American victory at the Battle of Midway

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9781580800594 | Burford Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Recounts the Battle of Midway, using diaries, Japanese naval records, and interviews, and explains the significance of the U.
9780060923600 | Reissue edition (Perennial, February 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A remarkable account of what has been called 'the most decisive naval battle since Trafalgar.

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9781560064152 | Lucent Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $27.45

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Product Description: Game designer and author Jack Greene has once again assembled his team of graphics artists and international researchers to present a visually impressive treatment of a crucial World War II campaign, offering an insightful examination of Japan's aims, assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as a thought-provoking analysis of the Pacific Ocean as a single grand battlefield...read more
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9780938289111 | Rev sub edition (Da Capo Pr, December 21, 1994), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Game designer and author Jack Greene has once again assembled his team of graphics artists and international researchers to present a visually impressive treatment of a crucial World War II campaign, offering an insightful examination of Japan's aims, assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as a thought-provoking analysis of the Pacific Ocean as a single grand battlefield.

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Product Description: The great air and sea battle of the Pacific, as seen through Japanese eyes . . . On June 4, 1942, Admiral Yamamoto launched his attack on Midway with the largest fleet yet assembled in the Pacific. His strike force included 350 ships and over 100,000 officers and men...read more
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9780345346919, titled "Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan : The Japanese Navy's Story" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The great air and sea battle of the Pacific, as seen through Japanese eyes .

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Describes the events leading up to the Battle of Midway, the battle itself, and the aftermath
By Tony Gibbons (illustrator) and Philip Sauvain
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9780027810905 | New Discovery, May 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Describes the events leading up to the Battle of Midway, the battle itself, and the aftermath

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