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Originally Posted by Dogger
'Shattered Sword'. by Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully is a detailed account of the Battle of Midway from the Japanese perspective...and one of the best books of the battle that I've read. Wish I had gotten to it a lot sooner, excellent dissection of Japanese doctrine and a unique view into the actions, and inaction's that led to Kido Butai's fiery fate at the hands of the USN.
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This was friggin' awesome. One of the two authors also wrote one taking apart the night gunfight at Surigao Strait.
The South Pacific 1942 campaign has always been one of my favorites.