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9781501264177 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 23, 2015), cover price $14.99
There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk by American planes. Though the Second World War had three more years to run, the Imperial Japanese Navy would never again initiate a strategic offensive.In this spellbinding account of a key turning point, one of America’s leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds, paints a portrait of ingenuity, courage, sacrifice, and chance. Symonds begins with the arrival of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating Japanese attack, and describes the events leading to the climactic battle, including both Coral Sea―the first in history involving opposing carrier forces―and Jimmy Doolittle’s daring raid of Tokyo. He focuses throughout on the people involved, offering telling portraits of Admirals Nimitz, King, Halsey, and Spruance as well as the leading Japanese figures, including the poker-enthusiast Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku and Admiral Nagumo Chuichi. Indeed, Symonds illuminates the aspects of Japanese culture―such as their single-minded devotion to combat, which led to poorly armored planes and inadequate fire-safety measures on their ships―that contributed to their defeat.Symonds’ account of the battle itself is deft and exhaustive, weaving together the many disparate threads of attack―attacks that 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.The American victory at Midway was both less incredible and miraculous than it has sometimes been portrayed. It was, instead, the result of a web of contingencies and decisions than can be traced back to their origins and reconnected. As Symonds’ book brilliantly demonstrates, doing so detracts nothing from the battle’s significance and drama, nor loosens its enduring hold on our imaginations.
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9781480527850 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 2013), cover price $49.97
9781480528932 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway.
Hardcover:
9781410455642 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 18, 2013), cover price $32.99 | also contains The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Paperback:
9780802121523 | Grove Pr, June 11, 2013, cover price $16.00 | also contains The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
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9781491575284 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, December 9, 2014), cover price $9.99
9781480516922 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 11, 2013), cover price $19.99
9781480516939 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 11, 2013), cover price $14.99
9781469270227 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 23, 2012), cover price $29.99
9781469270241 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 23, 2012), cover price $24.99
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9781469270234, titled "The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 23, 2012), cover price $69.97
9781469270258, titled "The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 23, 2012), cover price $39.97
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9780143144106 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, February 10, 2009), cover price $39.95
Product Description: For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid nightmares...read more
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9781511396622 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, May 3, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter.
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9781522670438 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 21, 2016), cover price $9.99
Paperback:
9780812975604 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, June 16, 2009), cover price $16.00 | also contains Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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9780739328897 | Unabridged edition (Random House, May 27, 2008), cover price $34.95
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9781531816766 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, August 16, 2016), cover price $9.99
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9781511340625 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 3, 2015), cover price $9.99
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9781469299211 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 23, 2013), cover price $39.97
9781469298610 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 23, 2013), cover price $49.97
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