Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
by Evan Thomas
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages415 pages
ISBN
9780743252218
Published
2006
Description
Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the south pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: admiral william ("B...Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the south pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: admiral william ("Bull") halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; admiral takeo kurita, the Japanese battleship commander charged with making what was, in essence, a suicidal fleet attack against the American invasion of the philippines; admiral matome ugaki, a self-styled samurai who was the commander of all kamikazes and himself the last kamikaze of the war; and commander ernest evans, a cherokee indian and.
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