[ARC5] Recommended Books

[Mike Everette]

 Two very good books on Midway:

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully (Midway from the Japanese side, using all Japanese sources)
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons, by Anthony Kiernan
Both of these books are fascinating reading.
73
MikeWA4DLF






    On Sunday, June 28, 2020, 10:37:40 PM EDT, Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I just completed reading “Bring Back my Stringbag”,  Swordfish pilot at war 1940-1945 by Lord Kilbracken (formerly Lieutenant-Commander John Godly RNVR).

This book follows Godly's fascination with flying as a youth through his wartime journey as a Swordfish pilot.    Most interestingly,  it contains several chapters on MAC (Merchant Aircraft Carrier) operations in the North Atlantic as well as Royal Navy escort operations in the same area.    Also, it covers his exploits flying the Swordfish against the Germans in Norway.    I found the book to be well written (but not a lot of radio related material).

Other books I've finished that I recommend:

“Hitlers Eagles – The Luftwaffe 1933-1945” by Chris McNab.   This goes into deep details of all aspects of the Luftwaffe, including significant unit histories (and I have to confess,  I glossed over some of those.....).

“Yesterday we were in America”   Alcock and Brown, first to fly the Atlantic Non-Stop, by Brendan Lynch.

“Midway the Battle that doomed Japan” by Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya (formerly of the Imperial Japanese Navy).     This was the first published account in Japan concerning Midway in the early 1950's,  and translated into English around 1955.   I read this immediately after re-reading “Miracle at Midway” by George W. Prange, which I consider to be the best text on the subject.  To be honest, I expected Fuchida's book to be slanted to make Japan look not as bad as it was,  but he and Okumiya don't pull any punches – they provided an objective assessment of what happened.  Lot's of very detailed maps.

All the books are available from Amazon;  “Bring back my Stringbag” and “Midway the Battle that doomed Japan” are out of print,  but I got them from second hand sellers linked to Amazon (Midway was $13 shipped......).

73 Mark K3MSB


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