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The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action

Twentieth-Century Battles

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action

By: H. P. Willmott
Narrated by: Jim Seitz
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf - October 22-28, 1944 - was the greatest naval engagement in history. In fact the battle was four separate actions, none of which were fought in the Gulf itself, and the result was the destruction of Japanese naval power in the Pacific. This book is a detailed and comprehensive account of the fighting from both sides. It provides the context of the battle, most obviously in terms of Japanese calculations and the search for "a fitting place to die" and "the chance to bloom as flowers of death." Using Japanese material never previously noted in western accounts, H.P. Willmott provides new perspectives on the unfolding of the battle and very deliberately seeks to give readers a proper understanding of the importance of this battle for American naval operations in the following month. This careful interrogation of the accounts of "the last fleet action" is a significant contribution to military history.

Winner, Society for Military history Distinguished Book Award.

©2005 H. P. Willmott (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks Armed Forces Military Naval Forces War
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Whilst not a bad book. It wasn't good either. As a reference book I suppose it has its place but there was too much irrelevant detail for even the history enthusiast like me.

Meh

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Not at all a Narration, more like a bullet point analysis of numbers and breakdowns. Had to put this into the "could not finish pile"

Hard to listen to.

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An excellent in depth look at this crucial and somewhat confused and protracted naval battle.

Full of telling statistics, anecdotes and historic fact. This is a must read/listen (probably several times to fully absorb the enormous amount of information and data), account of WW2 warfare in the Pacific.

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