The Battle of Midway
The prevailing view of the Battle of Midway is simplistic and in many ways simply wrong. Nevertheless, it has survived largely intact until the present day. All of the first accounts of the battle played up the superiority of the Japanese and their expectation of another victory. Even the titles of these books, like Incredible Victory and Miracle at Midway, suggested the inevitability of a Japanese victory. The sole Japanese account of the battle translated into English was easily woven into the standard account.
