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Today, while clearing off a bookshelf, I came across a book I neglected to recommend in earlier literary discussions, and I need to repair that oversight:
Shattered Sword, by Parshall and Tully is the definitive work on the battle of Midway. A remarkable work of richly detailed scholarship so skillfully written as to read like a novel.
This is the best work of history I am likely to read in this lifetime...and, yes, I have read Shelby Foote's excellent three-volumes on the Civil War, twice.
This is a story many of us think we know, but trust me, until you read this, you almost certainly don't.
Shattered Sword, by Parshall and Tully is the definitive work on the battle of Midway. A remarkable work of richly detailed scholarship so skillfully written as to read like a novel.
This is the best work of history I am likely to read in this lifetime...and, yes, I have read Shelby Foote's excellent three-volumes on the Civil War, twice.
This is a story many of us think we know, but trust me, until you read this, you almost certainly don't.
