Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
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.
--Lisle A. Rose "The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord"