Ther’s a new book on Midway, entitled “Midway Inquest” by Dallas Woodbury Isom. Well researched and written, it will stand the popular conception of the battle on its head, at least as Nagumo’s sole culpability for Japanese mistakes is concerned.
I’ll check it out.
I have finished, just yesterday as a matter of fact, re reading The Shattered Sword by Jonathan Pashall copy right 2005. The book is about the Japanese Navy side of the battle. It is written from some first hand accounts by Japanese officers and sailors and from extensive study of the Japaneese records. It details the failure of the overall Japanese Naval establishment and how it did not understand what it was doing in prosecuting the war after Pearl Harbor. The book also details flight and naval operations of Kido Butai literally minute by minute during the battle. It has extensive appendices detailing th japanese order of battle, planes, ships, glossary, and minute by minute air operations form the 4 carrier decks.[
It refutes most of what is popularly known as myth and proves by detailed analysis of events as shown by the actual surviving Japanese and American records.