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Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone. My apologies to anybody waiting for the Winter War Part 4, but unfortunately, it just did not happen this week. So instead I'm going to bring another episode out of the member episode archives. This episode is a bit different because instead of focusing on one topic or event from the war, it instead focuses on a single book, Shattered

Sword, the untold story of the Battle of Midway. During the episode I discussed not just the

subject covered by the book, the Battle of Midway, but also how the authors, Jonathan Partial

and Anthony Tolley, approach the subject in a very informative and, I think, really interesting

way. With this being the first book review to show up on the podcast, let me know if you like it

or hate it or really feel strongly about it in any way. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War members episode 18, a review of

Shattered Sword, the untold story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Partial and Anthony

Tully.

Those who follow me on social media know that over the last month or two,

I've been doing what I call some free reading,

which basically just means reading books about the Second World War

that are not immediate research needs.

So, for example, I've read an army at dawn,

the war in North Africa, 1942 to

1933 by Rick Adkinson, about allied landings in North Africa as part of Operation Torch,

and empires in the balance, Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942 by

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