H P Willmott

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

The Last Fleet Action

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

H. P. Willmott has written extensively on warfare in general and on World War II in particular. Among his books are The Last Century of Sea Power: From Washington to Tokyo, 1922¿1945 (IUP, 2010) and The Last Century of Sea Power: From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894¿1922 (IUP, 2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780253019011
• ISBN-10: 025301901X
• Artikelnr.: 42574064

Autorenporträt

H. P. Willmott

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. The Nature of War and Victory
2. The Option of Difficulties: The American Situation in the Aftermath of
the Victory in the Philippine Sea
3. The Search for Solutions: The Japanese Situation in the Aftermath of
Defeat in the Philippine Sea
4. Preliminaries: 6-18 October 1944
5. Advance and Contact, 18-24 October 1944
6. The Great Day of Wrath: 25 October 1944
7. The Naval Battle for the Philippines: The Postscript, 26 October-30
November 1944
8. To Pause and Consider: Blame, Responsibility, and the Verdict of
History.
Appendixes
Notes
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index