This is without any doubt the finest, most accurately researched book ever written about the Battle of Midway.The authors rejected all of the commonly accepted notions about the battle and instead studied the battle through the lens of Japanese naval doctrine and more recent scholarly works from the Japanese side to provide the reader with a much better understanding of this pivotal battle.Many of the circumstances which have been commonly accepted as facts are thrown out and shown to be plainly false.I recommend this great book to any student of military history and would also prescribe it to any potential authors as a framework to use which shows how a history should be written.