Katherine V Dillon

"[This is] the definitive history of the battle of Midway, an American victory that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific during World War II. [It] brings together eyewitness accounts from the men who commanded and fought on both sides. The sweeping narrative takes readers into the thick of the action and shows exactly how American strategies and decisions led to the triumphant victory that paved the way for the defeat of Japan."--Publisher...

A minute-by-minute account of the morning that changed America forever When dawn broke over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, no one suspected that America was only minutes from war. By nightfall, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was a smoldering ruin, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. December 7, 1941 gives a captivating and immersive real-time account of that fateful morning. In or out of uniform, every witness responded differently when the first Japanese...