Название: The Battle of MidwayАвтор: Craig L. Symonds
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 534
Размер: 55,35 Мб
Язык: английский
The author's account of the battle itself is masterful, weaving together the many disparate threads of attack--attacks which failed in the early going--that ultimately created a five-minute window in which three of the four Japanese carriers were mortally wounded, changing the course of the Pacific war in an eye-blink. Symonds is the first historian to argue that the victory at Midway was not simply a matter of luck, pointing out that Nimitz had equal forces, superior intelligence, and the element of surprise.