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Book Choices
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:26 pm
by Skyros
I am thinking of picking up one of the following, any recommendations on which to avoid?
Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
by John Burton (Author)
Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way (Hardcover)
by Douglas V. Smith (Author)
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States (Hardcover)
by Sadao Asada (Author)
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
by John B. Lundstrom (Author)
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 12:20 am
by spence
Somebody or other has read the book about Fletcher and commented favorably on it.
Never heard of the other ones...probably ought to get them all and report to the rest of us.[;)]
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 12:39 am
by Don Bowen
I can automatically and enthusiastically recommend anything written by Lundstrom. Well researched, detailed, accurate.
Now, if I just had time to read...
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:05 am
by Yamato hugger
Every fleet carrier lost in US history was under Jack Fletchers command when it was sunk (yes, including the Wasp -- Fletcher was the area commander at the time).
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:20 am
by jwilkerson
ORIGINAL: Skyros
I am thinking of picking up one of the following, any recommendations on which to avoid?
Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
by John Burton (Author)
Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way (Hardcover)
by Douglas V. Smith (Author)
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States (Hardcover)
by Sadao Asada (Author)
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
by John B. Lundstrom (Author)
Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way (Hardcover)
by Douglas V. Smith (Author)
If IIRC I checked this one out in the library - seemed like just a rehash of everybody else's work ... and not much "data" ... so at least where I'm at - this one didn't offer me anything.
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:30 am
by Skyros
But he was also in command when six Japanese Carriers were sunk.
ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger
Every fleet carrier lost in US history was under Jack Fletchers command when it was sunk (yes, including the Wasp -- Fletcher was the area commander at the time).
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 4:41 pm
by rogueusmc
On the book note, I noticed Newt Gingrich wrote a Pearl Harbor book...anyone heard anything about it?
Lee
RE: Book Choices
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:05 am
by kfsnyder
first time poster long time reader. havent read those. Lundstrum wrote two exelent books on naval air. another good book is Burma, The longest war 1941-1945, by Louis Allen. list oob's for the campaign.