The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

New take on the battle of Midway with emphasis on the development of the combat systems and personnel that won the battle. An incredibly informative review of the battle and an extensive historiography of how and why the battle was won.

A clever way to detail this strategic event in US History. If I had to sum it up in three words.COURAGETEAMWORKINGENUITYAmerican grit! This book is all about American Patriotism and selflessness.

My father was an SBD, TBM and also an F4U Marine aviator during WWII. The book provides a worthy account of why and what actually took place at Midway. Kudos to the author!

Very engrossing and highly illustrative of the confusion and pressures that accompany a battle especially in a case of distant fighting and ragged, conflicting information. Highly recommend.

Focus on certain individuals was good. Overall it was not very impressive.

Adds very little new, primarily a vehicle to support more spending on Navy and the author's view we need to prepare for war with China. Don't bother reading, lots of better books on Midway than this.

This reads like a gen z term paper. There is nothing new of any significance here. Although I did find out that one of Nimitz's daughters had communist leanings.

Just finished this book. The authors have done a masterly job of succinctly giving the reader a history of the development of the Dauntless divebomer and the development of naval aviation. Excellent descriptions of what it took to actually fly a plane like that and make a bom run. Exciting descriptions of action many of them based upon participant's own memories. A real eye opener into the world of Naval Aviation at that time, warts and all.This is not a complete history fo the battle, focusing mainly on June 4th, the decisive day. The authors do a great job of helping the reader keep track of who is who by often reiterating their role, and you can easily figure out which squadron is which after a short while just by repition and following the earlier ex-maples.While I gave it five stars, the tird part of the book was a real loser. Their conclusions, opinions, and follow up the participant's lives after the battle could have been better organized and condensed by about a third. Also, sometimes there opinions seemed to contradict earlier statements. That said, don;t let that stop you from reading this book. When it comes to the battle, the authors did a masterpiece of synthesizing and presenting the information.

The authors provide a good rehearsal of the various arguments surrounding the US victory at Midway: luck, preparation, judgement, providence. Well worth reading for anyone interested in the battle itself or the subsequent debates it has spawned. The authors also pose important questions for future Midway preparedness.

A rattling and moving account of an action that I already knew a bit about. Very highly recommended, powerful and moving.

The approach taken by the authors is novel, focusing on the Dauntless dive bomber to illustrate American technological superiority. The inevitable section on racial stuff was predictable and tedious, as were some of the personal stories of the aviators and other personnel. There is quite an emphasis on the role of immigrants which, again, yielded little. Aren't all Americans the descendants of immigrants? Do we really need to hear about "identity" yet again?The account of the battle was readable, though not a patch on Craig Symonds or Ian Toll, and there was nothing new in terms of material or perspectives.The final section, on how Midway has been seen since, was quite interesting (movies etc) but was interspersed with some decidedly pretentious attempts at analysis. The parallels between Japan then and China now were, though, interesting and well-argued.Buy Craig Symonds' book.