# The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway - Hardcover

by **Jeff Shaara** (Author)

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER -** **In a** **"riveting"** **(_Booklist_) tale that picks up where _To Wake the Giant_ left off, Jeff Shaara transports us to the Battle of Midway in another masterpiece of military historical fiction.**

Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort's astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning.

But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought.

From the American side, the shocking conflict is seen through the eyes of Rochefort and Admiral Nimitz, as well as fighter pilot Lieutenant Percy "Perk" Baker and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Doug Ackroyd.

On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is the mastermind. His key subordinates are Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, aging and infirm, and Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, a firebrand who has no patience for Nagumo's hesitation. Together, these two men must play out the chess game designed by Yamamoto, without any idea that the Americans are anticipating their every move on the sea and in the air.

Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail what happens when these two sides finally meet, in what will be known ever after as one of the most definitive and heroic examples of combat ever seen. In _The Eagle's Claw_, he recounts, with his trademark you-are-there immediacy and signature depth of research, one single battle that changed not only the outcome of a war but the course of our entire global history.

The story of Midway has been told many times, but never before like this.

### Author Biography

**Jeff Shaara** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _To Wake the Giant, The Frozen Hours_, _The Fateful Lightning_, _The Smoke at Dawn_, _A Chain of Thunder_, _A Blaze of Glory_, _The Final Storm_, _No Less Than Victory_, _The Steel Wave_, _The Rising Tide_, _To the Last Man_, _The Glorious Cause_, _Rise to Rebellion_, and _Gone for Soldiers_, as well as _Gods and Generals_ and _The Last Full Measure--_two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, _The Killer Angels_. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN

**Publication Date:** June 01, 2021

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- **Price:** 28.99 USD
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