Jonathan Parshall is the co-author, with Anthony Tully, of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Potomac). His writing has been published in leading military publications, including Warship International and The Naval War College Review. The founder and webmaster of www.combinedfleet.com, the premier reference web site on the Imperial Japanese Navy, Parshall has worked as a historical adviser to the BBC and a consultant on the 1999 mission to the Midway battle site by the Nauticos Corporation and the U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office. He lives with his family in Minneapolis.

REVIEWS

“A groundbreaker, a landmark work that belongs at eye-level center in any naval historian’s bookcase.” —Naval History

“Parshall and Tully have set a new standard for researching, evaluating, and synthesizing material from sources around the world to provide a complete account.... Experts will certainly agree that this is one of the two or three most  important books on the Pacific War published in the last decade.” —Douglas V. Smith, professor of strategy and policy, Naval War College, in Air & Space

“One of the year’s ten best books.” —WWII History

“This incredible book shatters all previous notions on how the Battle of Midway was fought. It also shatters all the standards for military reference works.” —Walter J. Boyne, former director, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution