The Battle of Midway Roundtable

Authors and Historians on the Roundtable

Updated:  November 15, 2013

This page lists books that relate in some way to World War II in the Pacific, and which are the work of the historian/authors of the Roundtable.  The entries below are in alphabetical order, by author’s name, and include links to Amazon.com or to other web sites for detailed information on each book.

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+ Books that are of special interest on the Roundtable for their relevance to the Battle of Midway.
By HUGH AMBROSE
The Pacific (2010) ~ Amazon.com Review
By ERIC BERGERUD
Touched With Fire (1997) ~ Amazon.com review
Fire in the Sky (2001 ~ Amazon.com review
By JAMES BRESNAHAN
+ Refighting the Pacific War (2011) ~ Amazon.com review
By ELLIOT CARLSON
+ Joe Rochefort's War (2011) ~ Amazon.com review
By ROBERT CRESSMAN
+ That Gallant Ship: the USS Yorktown CV5 (1985) ~ Amazon.com review
+ A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June, 1942 (1990) ~ Amazon.com review
Steady Nerves and Stout Hearts (1989) ~ Amazon.com review
Infamous day: Marines at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 (1992) ~ Amazon.com
A Magnificent Fight: The Battle for Wake Island (1995) ~ Amazon.com review
Carrier Lexington (1995) ~ Amazon.com
The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (1999)  ~  Amazon.com review
USS Ranger: The Navy's First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934-1946 (2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
By RICHARD EPPS
+ Life on a Tin Can: the Pacific War (2002) ~  Amazon.com
By CLAYTON FISHER
+ Hooked: Tales & Adventures of a Tailhook Warrior (2009) ~  Amazon.com review
# Link to 'Hooked': Tales & Adventures of a Tailhook Warrior Web Page: "Hooked" web site
By ALVIN KERNAN
+ Crossing the Line (1994, 1997, revised edition 2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
+ Love and Glory: the Death of a Torpedo Squadron (2005) (a novel)  ~  Amazon.com review
+ The Unknown Battle of Midway; the Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons (2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
Attack-Repeat-Attack  (2006) (novel, sequel to Love and Glory)  ~  Amazon.com review
Fear In the Dark  (2007) (novel, sequel to Attack-Repeat-Attack)  ~  Amazon.com review
By STANFORD LINZEY
+ God Was At Midway (1997).  Second edition published as The USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway (2004)  ~  Amazon.com review
By JOHN LUNDSTROM
+ The First South Pacific Campaign; Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941-June 1942 (1976)  ~  Amazon.com review
+ The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (1984, 2nd edition 1990, paperback 2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Pacific Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (1994, paperback 2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
Fateful Rendezvous: the Life of Butch O'Hare (1997, paperback 2004) by Lundstrom & Ewing  ~  Amazon.com review
+ Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal  (2006)  ~  Amazon.com review
By JOHAN LUPANDER (Sweden)
+ Midway 1942: Vandpunkten i Stila havet  [Turning Point in the Pacific] (2007).  Swedish language.  ~  Publisher's web page in Swedish
By RON MARTELL
+ Showdown in the Pacific War Nimitz and Yamamoto ~ Available on Amazon.com
By ROBERT MRAZEK
+ A Dawn Like Thunder: the True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight (2008).  ~  Amazon.com review
By JON PARSHALL and TONY TULLY
+ Shattered Sword, the Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
# Link to "Shattered Sword" web site Shattered Sword Web Site
By NORMAN POLMAR
+ Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945  ~   Amazon.com review
Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume II: 1945-2006  ~   Amazon.com review
The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima  (2004)  ~  Amazon.com review
Historic Naval Aircraft  (2004)  ~  Amazon.com review
(This is only a small sample of Norman Polmar’s works.  For a more complete listing of his many books on submarines, espionage, World War II, and other topics, search "Norman Polmar" in Amazon.com.)
By STEPHEN D. REGAN
+ In Bitter Tempest: The Biography of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher (1994) ~  Amazon.com review
By RONALD RUSSELL
+ No Right To Win: a Continuing Dialogue with Veterans of the Battle of Midway (2006)  ~  Amazon.com review
# "No Right To Win" web site
By LARRY SCHWEIKART
+ Halsey’s Bluff (2009) (a novel)  ~  Amazon.com review
By JOHN J. STEPHAN
Hawaii Under the Rising Sun:  Japan’s Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor (1984) ~  Amazon.com review
(For a listing of Dr. Stephan’s many books on other topics, search "John J. Stephan" in Amazon.com.)
By CRAIG L. SYMONDS
+ The Battle of Midway (2011)  ~  Amazon.com review
By BARRETT TILLMAN
+ The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War II  (1976)  ~  Amazon.com review
+ TBD Devastator Units of the U.S. Navy  (2000)  ~  Osprey Page
+ Dauntless (1992) (a novel)  ~  Amazon.com review
+ Wildcat Aces of World War II  (1995)  ~  Osprey Page
+ SBD Dauntless Units of World War II  (1998)  ~  Osprey Page
+ TBF/TBM Avenger Units of World War II  (1999)  ~  Osprey Page
+ Wildcat: the F4F in World War II  (2nd edition, 2001)  ~  Amazon.com review
Clash of the Carriers (2005)  ~  Amazon.com review
+ Pushing the Envelope: the Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl (2nd edition, 2005) ~ Amazon.com review
Whirlwind: the Air War Against Japan (2010) ~ Amazon.com review
+ Enterprise  (2012)  ~  Amazon.com review
  # Barrett's web site
By IAN W. TOLL
Six Frigates  (2008)   ~   Amazon.com review
+ Pacific Crucible: War In the Pacific, 1941-1942  (2011)   ~   Amazon.com review
By RON WERNETH
Beyond Pearl Harbor: the Untold Stories of Japan’s Naval  Airmen  (2008)  ~  Amazon.com review
Web site for the book:  Beyond Pearl Harbor
By ALAN D. ZIMM
Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions  (2011)  ~  Amazon.com Review

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