{"id":27,"date":"2026-04-29T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:00:36","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n  GOLDEN PINEAPPLE PRESS \u2014 The Book page\n  Paste into WordPress Code Editor\n--><\/p>\n<style>\n@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&family=Lora:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap');<\/p>\n<p>.gpp-page { font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, serif; background: #1C3557; color: #F5EADC; margin: 0; padding: 0; }\n.gpp-page * { box-sizing: border-box; }<\/p>\n<p>\/* Header *\/\n.gpp-page-header { background: #0F1E37; padding: 40px 60px; border-bottom: 3px solid #D4A011; }\n.gpp-page-header h1 { font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; 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Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, four of the most powerful aircraft carriers ever built are preparing to strike. Their crews are battle-hardened, their pilots the finest in the world. Six months earlier, they shattered the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour. Nothing has stopped them since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-opening\">They do not know that three American carriers are waiting for them, just over the horizon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-opening\">What follows will last less than six minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gpp-blurb-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-body\">Everyone knows Japan lost the Battle of Midway. Far fewer know <em>why<\/em> \u2014 or how close it came to going the other way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-body\">In <em>The Battle of Midway, by the Minute<\/em>, Berdj Anastassian strips the battle down to its bare bones and rebuilds it moment by moment, from the first patrol flights of 3 June to the last dive bomb that sealed Japan&#8217;s fate. Drawing on the most authoritative sources available \u2014 including Japanese operational reports, pilot testimonies, and the decoded intelligence that changed everything \u2014 he asks the questions that history books often gloss over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-body\">Why did Nagumo hesitate at the moment that mattered most? What would have happened if Yamamoto had played his hand differently? And how did six minutes of dive bombing alter the course of the entire war?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-body\">This is not a book for specialists only. Written with the clarity of a pilot&#8217;s briefing and the pace of a thriller, it places the reader in the cockpit, on the bridge, and in the operations room \u2014 minute by minute, decision by decision \u2014 as the fate of the Pacific is decided overhead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-blurb-tagline\">You already know how it ends. You have no idea what happened.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Where to buy --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gpp-section\">\n<p class=\"gpp-section-label\">Where to buy<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gpp-section-title\">Available in print<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gpp-section-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-coming-soon-banner\">\n<p class=\"gpp-coming-soon-text\">&#9201; The book is currently in its final production stage and will be available very soon. Check back here for purchase links \u2014 or contact us to be notified on the day of release.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-buy-card\">\n<div class=\"gpp-buy-card-left\">\n<h3>IngramSpark \u2014 Global distribution<\/h3>\n<p>Hardcover and paperback \u2014 worldwide shipping<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"gpp-btn-soon\">Coming soon<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-buy-card\">\n<div class=\"gpp-buy-card-left\">\n<h3>Amazon<\/h3>\n<p>Available through Amazon marketplaces worldwide<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"gpp-btn-soon\">Coming soon<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-buy-card\">\n<div class=\"gpp-buy-card-left\">\n<h3>Your local bookshop<\/h3>\n<p>Ask your local bookshop to order via IngramSpark distribution<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"gpp-btn-soon\">Coming soon<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Battle background --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gpp-bg-section\">\n<p class=\"gpp-section-label\">Historical background<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gpp-bg-title\">The Battle of Midway \u2014 Why it matters<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gpp-bg-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-bg-block\">\n<h3>Why Midway?<\/h3>\n<p>By the spring of 1942, Japan had achieved virtually everything its pre-war planners had dared to dream. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, understood better than anyone that Japan had not destroyed American naval power \u2014 it had only wounded it. The US carriers had escaped Pearl Harbour. They had raided Tokyo. They had fought the <em>Kido Butai<\/em> to a draw at the Coral Sea. Midway was his answer: a tiny atoll sitting astride the most direct route between Japan and the American West Coast. One decisive victory, and the Americans would have no choice but to negotiate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-bg-block\">\n<h3>The odds<\/h3>\n<p>Japan committed eight aircraft carriers, eleven battleships, twenty-two cruisers, sixty-five destroyers and more than 700 aircraft to the operation. Against them, the United States could field three carriers \u2014 one of them, <em>Yorktown<\/em>, so badly damaged at the Coral Sea that Japanese intelligence believed her sunk. She had been repaired in 72 hours at Pearl Harbour. What Japan did not know was that the United States had broken their naval code. Admiral Chester Nimitz knew the date, the direction and the strength of the Japanese attack before a single ship left port.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-bg-block\">\n<h3>The six minutes<\/h3>\n<p>On the morning of 4 June 1942, between 10:22 and 10:28, three American dive bomber squadrons found the Japanese carriers at the precise moment their decks were crowded with fully fuelled and armed aircraft. <em>Akagi<\/em>, <em>Kaga<\/em> and <em>S\u014dry\u016b<\/em> were all hit in less than six minutes. All three sank before the day was out. Japan lost four fleet carriers, over 250 aircraft, and \u2014 most irreplaceable of all \u2014 the core of her experienced naval aviators. 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