Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver

Tidal Wave (eBook, PDF)

From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 25 October 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting an enemy that had been inconceivable until it appeared. The kamikaze, 'divine wind' in Japanese, was something Americans were totally unprepared for; a 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.

Based on first-person accounts, Tidal Wave is the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from the victory at Leyte Gulf to the end of the war, in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472825469
• Artikelnr.: 53161342

Autorenporträt

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 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