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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

David McCullough

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

Annie Jacobsen and Hachette Audio

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

Michael Malice, Marcus Freeman, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy)

Martin Luther Dr. King Jr., Vincent Harding, et al.

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin Industries

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life

Patrick Van Horne , Jason A. Riley , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson, Scott Brick, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Origins and History of Consciousness: Bollingen Series

Erich Neumann, R. F. C. Hull - translator, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Reeves Wiedeman

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Hiroshima

John Hersey

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Liza Mundy

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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dba7dbaonMar 23, 2015

Highly recommend "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway". Great book on why Japanese navy was doomed to lose at Midway.

openasocketonFeb 24, 2021

The Japanese had a variety of issues with radios. Some Type 0 pilots did remove their radio system, to save weight, but only on land-based fighters. For carrier-based ships radios were still essential, because they used radio direction finding for navigation. Japanese carrier-based operations also suffered issues because they tended to use a single radio frequency for all air operations (meaning the channel could get disorganized). Japanese carriers also had their antennas on the sides of the ships rather than at the top of the island, which meant they often couldn't receive longer ranged transmissions, so it would be up to escorting cruisers to receive messages and then transmit them to the carrier. The book "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway" has some good information about some of these nitty-gritty details.
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