by Dale Jenkins | Oct 28, 2025 | Book Reviews
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 W.W. Norton & Company, 597 pages, 2012. This is the first of a trilogy intended by Mr. Toll as a comprehensive study of the Pacific War. It begins with a vivid account of the Pearl harbor attack of December 7,...
by Dale Jenkins | Jul 18, 2025 | Book Reviews
Martin Dugard, Taking Midway, Dutton (Penguin Random House), 358 pages, 2025. The latest in a series of books, Taking Midway follows Taking Berlin and Taking Paris with an engaging series of vignettes, anecdotes and narratives leading to the June 4, 1942 Midway battle...
by Dale Jenkins | May 14, 2025 | Book Reviews
Operation Snow provides an incisive description of the Soviet spy operation that operated in the United States from the 1930s through the end of WWII and even beyond. Most significant was the part it played in the United States entry into WWII. The NKVD, the Russian...
by Dale Jenkins | Feb 11, 2025 | Book Reviews
From Dale’s Bookshelf ⚓📚 Book Review – Craig L. Symonds – The Battle of Midway Oxford University Press, 452 Pages, 2011 Mr. Symonds has written a book covering not just the Midway battle but, by providing detailed accounts of the Pacific War beginning with the...
by Dale Jenkins | Jan 3, 2025 | Book Reviews
4/5 ⭐s | Good narrative but with omissions of Midway battle plan Mr. Symonds produced a solid account of Nimitz’s leadership through four years of war, and shows how FDR was rewarded with his confidence in Nimitz when he told him: Get out to Pearl Harbor and...
by Dale Jenkins | Nov 18, 2024 | Book Reviews
Cliff White 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — Excellent read, highly recommend. Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2024 Verified Purchase Been studying history for some time. Excellent lead in to the Pacific War. Explaining primary and underlying reasons of the conflict. Sometimes I...
