Shattered Sword - the untold story of the Battle of Midway

Part of Reanalysed Week on WW2TV This show will examine primarily (but by no means exclusively) the Japanese side of the battle of the Battle of Midway. For their brilliant book my guests made extensive usage of new Japanese primary and secondary sources that have not been utilized in prior studies. These include the official Japanese War History series (Senshi Sosho), the translated carrier air group action reports of the four Japanese carriers involved in the battle, the comprehensive Japanese casualty figures found in Sawachi Hisae’s groundbreaking volume on the battle (Midowei Kaisen Kiroku), and many others. Their findings were based less on first-hand personal accounts and more on concrete operational data. This shift in focus has led to many important, and potentially provocative, re-interpretations of the conventional wisdom on the battle.