Sea of thunder : four commanders and the last great naval campaign, 1941-1945 [text (large print)]

• Tác giả: Evan Thomas
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0786295279
• ISBN-13: 978-0786295272
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 940.54 Military history of World War II
• Thông tin xuất bản: Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2007.
• Mô tả vật lý: 705 p. (large print) : , ill., maps ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 90624
• Chủ đề: 1. Large type books; 2. Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944; 3. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean; 4. World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; 5. World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, Japanese; 6. Evans, Ernest Edwin,; 7. Halsey, William Frederick,; 8. Japan--History--World War, 1939-1945; 9. Kurita, Takeo,; 10. Ugaki, Matome,; 11. United States--History--World War, 1939-1945

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

Based on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, post-war testimony from both American and Japanese participants, Evan Thomas provides an almost cinematically suspenseful account not only of the great culminating sea battle and the Pacific naval war, but of the contrasting cultures pitted against each other. The book focuses on four naval commanders, two American, two Japanese, whose lives collided at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, a clash involving more ships (almost 300), more men (nearly 200,000) and covering a larger area (more than 100 thousand square miles, roughly the size of the British Isles) than any naval battle in recorded history.