Jeff Shaara. (2021). The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway. Random House Publishing Group.

Jeff Shaara. 2021. The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway. Random House Publishing Group.

Jeff Shaara, The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway. Random House Publishing Group, 2021.

Jeff Shaara. The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway. Random House Publishing Group, 2021.

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   • bioText: Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of To Wake the Giant, The Frozen Hours, The Fateful Lightning, The Smoke at Dawn, A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a “riveting” (Booklist) tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left off, Jeff Shaara transports us to the Battle of Midway in another masterpiece of military historical fiction.
Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known “code breaker” who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort’s astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning.
But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought.
From the American side, the shocking conflict is seen through the eyes of Rochefort and Admiral Nimitz, as well as fighter pilot Lieutenant Percy “Perk” Baker and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Doug Ackroyd.
On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is the mastermind. His key subordinates are Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, aging and infirm, and Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, a firebrand who has no patience for Nagumo’s hesitation. Together, these two men must play out the chess game designed by Yamamoto, without any idea that the Americans are anticipating their every move on the sea and in the air.
Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail what happens when these two sides finally meet, in what will be known ever after as one of the most definitive and heroic examples of combat ever seen. In The Eagle’s Claw, he recounts, with his trademark you-are-there immediacy and signature depth of research, one single battle that changed not only the outcome of a war but the course of our entire global history.
The story of Midway has been told many times, but never before like this.

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     May 15, 2021
     Deadly enemies clash in the Pacific in this dramatic novel about the Battle of Midway Island. Japan has conquered much of Asia, and after striking Pearl Harbor, Adm. Yamamoto worries that the emperor's forces suffer from Victory Disease, the idea that they will win every battle. He'd never thought attacking American soil was such a good idea in the first place--as shown in Shaara's last book, To Wake the Giant (2020)--and now he must capture Midway Island and the airstrips that American pilots would use to attack Japan. And he must destroy the aircraft carriers that bring the fighters and bombers from the U.S. mainland. Yamamoto is an insightful man who knows "the airplane will rule this war" and "aircraft carriers are the future." If he can lure the enemy ships into a trap, his superior forces can sink them all. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has men like Cmdr. Rochefort, a codebreaker whose team in the top-secret Dungeon deciphers enemy intentions. The story shows both sides' viewpoints as men sail to their destinies--there are no spoilers to be had, as it's slightly fictionalized history made highly readable. The narration carries a heavier load than the dialogue, yet Shaara deftly digs into the minds of the major players. Yamamoto, who has never failed at anything, "violates one of the tenets of warfare--he divides his forces." Adm. Nagumo takes too long preparing an attack and so loses three carriers. With no ships to land on, the Zeroes have "nothing left but to fly into the sea." Adm. Yamaguchi commands his crew to abandon the burning Hiryu while he declares, "I shall remain with my ship." Shaara writes a well-researched and evenhanded portrayal of the event that changed the direction of the Pacific War. Compelling wartime excitement that's much more history than fiction.

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     Starred review from May 15, 2021
     In To Wake the Giant (2020), Shaara used his familiar technique of following a handful of real-life characters to tell story of Pearl Harbor. Now, in this next installment of his Pacific War series, he moves to Midway Island, site of the naval battle that changed the tide of the war. Like Pearl Harbor, the Midway story has been told many times, but Shaara's zoom-lens approach, using first-person narration from the points of view of soldiers and sailors on both sides of the conflict, generals to noncoms, makes possible an exciting blend of big-picture strategy and intense human perspective. This time we revisit some of the characters from To Wake the Giant, including Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of both Pearl Harbor and Midway battles, and U.S. Navy Commander and ace code-breaker Joe Rochefort, who failed to connect the dots before December 7 and is now determined to pinpoint where Yamamoto's next campaign will take place. Jumping between those far from the action (Rochefort and his team, ensconced in a basement in Hawaii, working feverishly to understand the enemy's chatter) and those in the middle of it (on aircraft carriers and in fighter planes, searching the Pacific for the Japanese fleet and then attacking it), Shaara shows how battles are won by strategy, firepower, and courage, but also by paying attention to minutiae and, of course, by luck. Riveting historical fiction.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Shaara's wildly popular novels about the Civil War and WWII extend the audience for military fiction far beyond its normal range.

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Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known “code breaker” who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort’s astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning.
But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought.
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On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku...

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