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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101472825497
ISBN-139781472825490
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038367604
Product Key Features
Book TitleTidal Wave : from Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicMilitary / World War II, Military / Naval, Military / United States
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorThomas Mckelvey Cleaver
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.545973
Table Of ContentCHAPTER ONE: The Final Battle CHAPTER TWO: October 25, 1944 CHAPTER THREE: The Big Blue Blanket CHAPTER FOUR: Halsey's Typhoons CHAPTER FIVE: The Forgotten Fleet CHAPTER SIX: Tokyo CHAPTER SEVEN: Iwo Jima CHAPTER EIGHT: Prelude to Okinawa CHAPTER NINE: The Fleet that Came to Stay CHAPTER TEN: The Murderous Month of May CHAPTER ELEVEN: Admiral Nimitz Writes a Letter CHAPTER TWELVE: Finale CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Gyokusen Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn October 1944 the United States Navy had won such overwhelming victories that, had it faced a different enemy, the war would have been over. However, at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the moment of apparent victory, the US Navy confronted a horrifying new enemy tactic. At 1045 hours, USS St. Lo, survivor of the Battle off Samar, was deliberately hit by a single Japanese fighter that crashed through her flight deck, igniting fires that sank her within 30 minutes. The kamikaze had arrived. Almost immediately, the main threat shifted from carrier-versus-carrier encounters to an intermittent flow of demoralizing kamikaze raids that hampered operations throughout the remainder of the war. A violation of every belief held in the West, these terrifying attacks were something for which the US was totally unprepared, and provoked in its men a new, deeply personal hatred of the enemy. Based on first-hand accounts, Tidal Wave tells the action-packed story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific, from Leyte Gulf to the end of the war - a period in which the US Navy would need to fight harder for victory than ever before. Book jacket., Now publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition from new and terrifying sources, notably the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze ., Now publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition from new and terrifying sources, notably the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze . The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had the navy faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. However, in the moment of victory on October 25, 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting a frightening enemy that had been unimaginable until it appeared. The kamikaze , "divine wind" in Japanese, was something Americans were totally unprepared for--a shocking violation of every belief held in the West. The attacks were terrifying. Regardless of the damage inflicted on an attacking airplane, there was no certainty of safety aboard the ship until that airplane was completely destroyed, as the crew of the USS St. Lo tragically learned. From best-selling author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, Tidal Wave combines expert research and first-person accounts to tell the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from the victory at Leyte Gulf to the end of the war--a period in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.
LC Classification NumberD773
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