Lord, Walter, — Incredible Victory.

NY, Harper & Row, (1967). G in G DJ. A true turning point in history, the June 1942 Battle of Midway. Individual acts of courage & skill & a panoramic view. of an incredible victory won by outnumbered, outgunned, outmanned American land, sea & air forces. "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war." Lord rummaged through unique collections of action reports, war diaries, charts & diagrams, hundreds of files made available to him at the government's archives as well as personal journals & letters of many of the participants. He interviewed shipyard workers at Pearl Harbor & in Japan Admiral Yamamoto's yeomen. DJ edge wear & price clipped, owner name DJ ft flap & fep, binding fading.