The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, 1942: A Selected Bibliography

by Myron J. Smith Jr.

1992 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the great Pacific naval battles in the Coral Sea and off Midway Island. Occuring within a month of each other, these turning Point engagements brought an end to Japan's military expansion and six months of Allied defeat and retreat in the Pacific. Fought mostly over the ocean by airmen flying primarily from aircraft carriers, the battles were marked on both sides by courage and luck, forewarning and foreboding,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313281203
• ISBN13: 9780313281204
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.6"