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Originally Posted by Torplexed
That's the clincher. I'll try and get in the near future. I hear it takes Walter Lord's classic Midway book, Incredible Victory to task a bit as well.
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Only for accepting Fuchida's account as being 100% true, which is true of just about every history of the battle. I always found that as being incredibly odd - "okay, we have a the written account of
one person published 10 years after the battle - let's just accept it at face value and not do any research of our own!" Can you imagine if a third of what we know about 9/11 came from a firefighter who didn't even see the towers collapse, wasn't on duty due to an injury he'd previously sustained, and was a notorious liar?
Anyway, Anthony Tully, the co-author of
Shattered Sword has a new book coming out within the month about the Battle of Surigao Strait. I've pre-ordered it, and I'm hoping it's at least
half as good as
Shattered Sword!