Incredible Victory (Classics of War)

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Summary: Very well written
Review: Incredible Victory is a great telling of the events on the Battle of Midway. As events are occurring, you will 1st get the Japanese side and next you'll get the American side or vise versa. The book is written well. It is hard to put down; very interesting. Walter Lord has a good writing style. I was enjoying his book so much that before I was half way through it, I ordered his "Day of Infamy". I would buy this book again.

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Summary: My love for WWII history began here.
Review: The author interviewed hundreds of American and Japanese survivors, combed the records of both nations and tells the human story of the pivotal battle between the US and and Japanese in the Pacific Theater of WWII. Code-breaking, luck and terrible sacrifice give Japan her first defeat.

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Summary: Exciting history with a rare human dimension- never lags
Review: The author refloated the Titanic in A Night to Remember. We were there during Pearl Harbor in Tora, Tora, Tora. Now he does it again with this book. Lord has a real gift of not only relating historical events, but also the personalities of the people involved in them. This book has become one of my favorites. It never lags and is truly inspiring.

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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: This book is a great example of how compelling history can be in the hands of a great writer, one who puts a human face on the history without sacrifing accuracy.

Granted, the battle of Midway was an inherently dramatic event, but other accounts of the battle don't rise to the level of Lord's writing.

This is another book I'd give a 6 if I could.

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Summary: I couldn't put this book down.
Review: Vividly written with details acquired from hundreds of interviews. A true classic of World War Two. Written with compassion for the combatants of both sides.

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Summary: Follow-up to Day of Infamy
Review: Walter Lord covered the attack on Pearl Harbor with his "Day of Infamy". With "Incredible Victory", Mr. Lord brings the same personal perspective of many of the Battle of Midway's participants. This is no dry narrative. The drama of the near miss aspect of this climactic battle is genuinely captured. Walter Lord has written three classic books of the sea, "A Night to Remember" (Titanic), "Day of Infamy" (Pearl Harbor) and "Incredible Victory" (Battle of Midway). Only Prange's books on the last two events are superior.

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Summary: Great storytelling
Review: Walter Lord presents the Battle of Midway as an epic adventure story in "Incredible Victory." His writes like a journalist rater than a history professor and this helps make the compelling story of the battle all the more readable. Lord shows the battle from the perspective of each of the participants and he emphasizes how the overwhelming American victory was the result of gritty determination combined with sheer luck. This is an excellent tribute to the brave men who fought perhaps America's most desperate major battle.

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Summary: Like the History Channel?
Review: When I was in high school, one of my assignments as a junior was to write a term paper, no less than fifteen pages, for my english class. I chose to write about the battle of Midway, because I'd heard a little about the signal intelligence that helped the Navy to know where to concentrate the Pacific Fleet, and found this book as a spectacular example of a few days broken down into manageable pieces. Lord's stories describe the demise of the four Japanese carriers sent to destroy the US presence on the Midway atoll, as well as the courage of the American pilots, who lost 42 of 52 torpedo planes against the Japanese fleet before American dive bombers caught the Japanese off guard. Though long, despite all the damage I've done to my brain since high school, I still remember certain parts of this book, about the retirement of a portrait of the Emperor, or a group of airmen in the water, or the tension surrounding the doomed Lexington. Enjoy, history buffs.

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Summary: Like the History Channel?
Review: When I was in high school, one of my assignments as a junior was to write a term paper, no less than fifteen pages, for my english class. I chose to write about the battle of Midway, because I'd heard a little about the signal intelligence that helped the Navy to know where to concentrate the Pacific Fleet, and found this book as a spectacular example of a few days broken down into manageable pieces. Lord's stories describe the demise of the four Japanese carriers sent to destroy the US presence on the Midway atoll, as well as the courage of the American pilots, who lost 42 of 52 torpedo planes against the Japanese fleet before American dive bombers caught the Japanese off guard. Though long, despite all the damage I've done to my brain since high school, I still remember certain parts of this book, about the retirement of a portrait of the Emperor, or a group of airmen in the water, or the tension surrounding the doomed Lexington. Enjoy, history buffs.

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Summary: Very well written
Review: Wow! Although the outcome of this battle is a given, I cannot remember a more thrilling, edge-of-the-seat read than this one. Truth is indeed more exciting than fiction, or at least it can be when the right author relates the tale. Mr Lord has shown us just how contingent and unpredictable history can be -- although nearly everything we threw at the japanese was shrugged off by the emperor's men, when we finally succeeded, it was a magnificent triumph that no one would believe if it had happened in a story. Lord's book is well-documented and he tells us a few new things about this battle -- for instance, although we had supposedly cracked the japanese code, it was more like a few bits of information rather than the entire plan.
I'd recommend it highly, but only if you have a good heart and a tolerance for intensity.