1942: the Incredible victory in the Battle of Midway has become a horrendous disaster. America's handful of carriers in the Pacific have blundered into a Japanese submarine picket line and most have been sunk. The United States has only one carrier remaining, while the ragtag remnants of U.S. battleships—an armada still reeling from the defeat at Pearl Harbor—are in even worse shape.
The Pacific belongs to the Japanese. Yet despite disaster, the U.S. is determined to fight back. And now a grand plan is put forth to lure the Japanese into an ambush that could restore the balance in the Pacific and give the forces of freedom a fighting chance once more.
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Product ReviewI'll admit, I only made it through the first two chapters of this book. While any alternate history will naturally have differences from real history, the constraints of alternate history demand some attention to real events, capabilities, methods, etc. Conroy demonstrates no understanding of the technical or operational details of the Pacific war. His errors range from the trivial (listing the USS Atlanta as both a light and a heavy cruiser in the same paragraph) to the fundamental (the relative fleet positions when the US carrier force bound for Midway would have encountered the IJN submarine picket line).
Those sufficiently ignorant of WWII to not notice the errors might enjoy this book, but I doubt anyone who knows much about it will.Posted on
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Product ReviewVery good read, keeps your interest.
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