Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea

by Robert C. Stern

Overview

1. This book profiles the first air carrier battle in WWII and the impact this battle had on the ultimate outcome for the war. IUP has traditionally done well with books on the Pacific War in World War II.

2. The author Robert C. Stern is a well-known historian and his past books have been popular.

3. There has been a recent publication through CreateSpace, but this will be the definitive book on the battle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253039316
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2021
Series:	Twentieth-Century Battles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	331
Sales rank:	368,420
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert C. Stern has been writing about 20th-century naval history for more than 35 years. Among his books are The US Navy and the War in Europe (2012), Fire from the Sky: Surviving the Kamikaze Threat (2010), Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat (2008) and The Hunter Hunted: Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present (2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Reckless Bet
2. Reprisal Raids
3. Setting the Scene
4. Opening Moves—2-6 May 1942
5. Seconds Out—7 May 1942
6. The Main Event—8 May 1942
7. Assessment and Withdrawal—8-11 May 1942
8. Aftermath
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

While the subject of quite a number of books, the Battle of the Coral Sea has found in Stern, this generation's master storyteller. His research into sources on both sides is exhaustive and he has used Japanese translators where necessary and appropriate to best illuminate materials. His effort has taken years of meticulous scholarship and it shows. At the same time, the general reader will enjoy and benefit from this account of the U.S. Navy's first serious battle of the Pacific War as much as the professional scholar. Highly recommended.

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