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Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle That Turned the Tide of World War II

Contributor(s): Dugard, Martin (Author)

ISBN: 9780593473245

Publisher: Dutton

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Pub Date: May 20, 2025

Dewey: 940.5426699

LCCN: 2024046944

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.28" H x 9.23" L x 6.36" W ( 1.13 lbs) 368 pages

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: "From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series--with more than twelve million copies sold--comes a fast-paced, dramatic account of the famous yet little understood battle that turned the tide of World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

Review Quotes: "Dugard provides a book that combines the history of Midway Island, the herculean cryptological efforts to discover the Japanese operation, the bold risks taken by the U.S. Navy to make good that advantage, and the experiences of the men fighting in the air and on the island that is most certainly worth a read." --Cipher Brief

"All the familiar characters are here... in Mr. Dugard's dramatic style." --Wall Street Journal

"Invigorating.... I highly recommend." --History Nerds United

"Taking Midway is a great book - it reads like a thrilling novel. Dugard's writing is easy to read, direct, comprehensive in scope, and page-turning from start to finish." --Roy Harkins, CAPT, USN (Ret). The Submarine Review

"Dugard's clipped, no-nonsense prose...and raw style...make this into an immersive adventure. WWII buffs will be engrossed." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for Martin Dugard's Taking Series:
"[Dugard's] ambition is to tell a gripping story. In this he succeeds triumphantly. One reads his narrative, mostly in the present tense, as if watching a film.... Dugard has real narrative gifts."--The Washington Post

"Taking Paris reads like a film script; such is the immediacy of the writing and use of the present tense that you feel yourself in the action, striding up the Champs-Élysées liberating the French capital from the Nazis."--Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

"Taking Paris
does for Paris during World War II what The Splendid and the Vile did for London. Martin Dugard knows how to make history read with as much pace as the best fiction."--James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Deadly Cross

"With a master storyteller's faultless pacing, Martin Dugard brings to life all the glory, tension, heroism, and tragedy of the last months of the Third Reich. I loved this book--gripping, popular history at its page-turning best."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Against All Odds and The First Wave

"Colorful, delightfully evocative, and filled with a cast of some of the greatest characters of the 20th century, Martin Dugard's Taking London is the closest you can get to London in 1940 without a time machine." --Garrett M. Graff, New York Times Bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and UFO

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