A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

©2013 Burford Books  On March 17, 1998, Burford Books, an independent book publisher based in Ithaca, N.Y., reissued Walter Lord's Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway as part of its Classics of War series. Originally published in 1967 by Harper Collins and reissued in paperback several times between 1968 and 1998, Lord's third book about World War II battles was one of the most popular and influential books about the Battle of Midway (June 4-7, 1942) and its impact on the Pacific War. Along with Gordon W. Prange's Miracle at Midway, Incredible Victory laid the groundwork for the mythologization of the war's second carrier battle as a modern-day David and Goliath story in which a badly-outnumbered American fleet defeated the mighty Combined Fleet of the Japanese navy. In the spring of 1942, the Japanese Empire was at the height of its power. In the first five months after the devastating attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Japan had defeated American, Bri

© 2005 Potomac Books On November 1, 2005, Potomac Books published Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Co-written by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, this was the first major book about the pivotal naval engagement that ended the Imperial Japanese Navy's offensive phase in the Pacific War since Gordon W. Prange's Miracle at Midway (1982). Based on extensive research of Japan's military and naval archives, as well as re-examining many American accounts of the battle, Shattered Sword not only tells the story of Midway from the perspective of the Japanese, but it also endeavors to bust myths about the 1942 battle that ended Japan's six-month-long string of victories over the Allies and began to see the balance of power shift to the U.S. Navy. Even though 78 years have passed since the Battle of Midway (June 4-7, 1942), it is still considered one of history's most important naval battles. When Japan's fearsome Combined Fleet set ou

© 2011 Oxford University Press. Cover photo, US Navy On October 5, 2011, the Oxford University Press published Craig L. Symonds' The Battle of Midway as part of the publisher's Pivotal Moments in American History series.  Based on official American and Japanese historical records, interviews with survivors of the naval campaigns of early 1942, and publications of the period, Symonds' take on one of the most famous - and decisive - battles in the Pacific Theater of Operations explores territory that has been explored by countless writers (including Walter Lord and Gordon W. Prange) and at the same time explodes myths that have been accepted as fact for the past 60 years. The naval Battle of Midway (June 4-6, 1942) has long been considered to be one of the most important naval battles of the Second World War. Almost six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, almost 200 Japanese ships, including four of the six carriers that had launched planes against Hawaii

Cover of the Bantam paperback edition © 1983 Bantam Books  Nook edition artwork © 2018 Barnes & Noble On March 27, 1957, Holt Books published Walter Lord's Day of Infamy, a documentary-style nonfiction account of the Japanese attack on the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor and various other U.S. military installations on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, on Sunday, December 7, 1941. Based on meticulous research and interviews with over 80 eyewitnesses and participants on both sides - American as well as Japanese - Day of Infamy is a detailed, hour-by-hour look at the chain of events that took place between the night of Saturday, December 6 and 12:30 P.M. on December 8. 1941 - ending the narrative with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "Day of Infamy" speech from which Lord derives the book's title. Unlike Gordon W. Prange's massive At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Lord's slimmer - and mu