Kyle Harrison
to-read
Shattered Sword
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
- Author
- Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 613
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Midway rebuilt from Japanese records rather than American memoirs, dismantling the “five fateful minutes” story and replacing it with the doctrine and damage-control failures that actually lost the carriers.
Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- World War II · History — where this sits in the corpus.