The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

Brendan Simms is author of The Longest Afternoon, a dramatic description of the defense of the farm of La Haye Sainte during the battle of Waterloo. In 2019 he published the acclaimed biography Hitler. His most recent book, cowritten with Charlie Laderman, is Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War.

Steven McGregor is a US Army veteran with a graduate degree in history from the University of Cambridge.