Very nice and well written state-of-the-art "definitive account" of the naval war in the Pacific up to and obviously including the Battle of Midway. Early American carrier raids and Battle of the Coral Sea are covered so that the reader gets all the facts on the antecedents of the decisive battle.

I particularly enjoyed the chapter on the "flight to nowhere" of most of Hornet's Air Group on June 4, as well as the shadows cast on the performance of CHAG Stanhope Ring and Hornet's Captain Marc Mitscher. I suppose we will never know what happened exactly, but it is clear that Hornet was the carrier with the least combat experience and their crew performed - as should be expected - quite abysmally.