Scratch One Flattop - (Twentieth-Century Battles) by Robert C Stern (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book profiles the first air carrier battle in WWII and the impact this battle had on the ultimate outcome for the war. IUP has traditionally done well with books on the Pacific War in World War II.</p> <p>2. The author Robert C. Stern is a well-known historian and his past books have been popular.</p> <p>3. There has been a recent publication through CreateSpace, but this will be the definitive book on the battle.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers <i>Lexington</i> and <i>Yorktown</i> to counter the move, setting the stage for the Battle of the Coral Sea.</p><br/><p>In <i>Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea, </i>historian Robert C. Stern analyzes the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first major fleet engagement where the warships were never in sight of each other. Unlike the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea has received remarkably little study. Stern covers not only the action of the ships and their air groups but also describes the impact of this pivotal engagement. His analysis looks at the short-term impact as well as the long-term implications, including the installation of inert gas fuel-system purging on all American aircraft carriers and the push to integrate sensor systems with fighter direction to better protect against enemy aircraft. </p><br/><p>The essential text on the first carrier air campaign, <i>Scratch One Flattop</i> is a landmark study on an overlooked battle in the first months of the United States' engagement in World War II.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>While the subject of quite a number of books, the Battle of the Coral Sea has found in Stern, this generation's master storyteller. His research into sources on both sides is exhaustive and he has used Japanese translators where necessary and appropriate to best illuminate materials. His effort has taken years of meticulous scholarship and it shows. At the same time, the general reader will enjoy and benefit from this account of the U.S. Navy's first serious battle of the Pacific War as much as the professional scholar. Highly recommended.</p>--Lisle A. Rose "The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Robert C. Stern has been writing about 20th-century naval history for more than 35 years. Among his books are <i>The US Navy and the War in Europe</i> (2012), <i>Fire from the Sky: Surviving the Kamikaze Threat</i> (2010), <i>Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat </i>(2008) and <i>The Hunter Hunted: Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present</i> (2007).</p>
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