The Battle of Midway
Francis Pike
Mon 23 June, 2025 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm BST
£3.00 – £6.00 Military History
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The Battle of Midway (June 1942) ranks with Salamis, Lepanto, and Trafalgar as one of the defining naval battles in history.
Just six months after the humiliation of Pearl Harbor, US Navy aircraft carriers took on a better equipped and trained Japanese Navy… and won. Was the US victory more luck than judgement?
Francis Pike, author of Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War 1941 – 1945, the standard one volume history of this conflict, explains the background to the Battle of Midway and how it unfolded with particular attention to the individuals and technology involved.
Image shows the Battle of Midway, June 1942; the burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a U.S. Navy aircraft
