The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Greatest Naval Battle in History : The Dramatic Full History : 23-26 October 1944 - Softcover

Cutler, Thomas J.

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9780671536701: The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Greatest Naval Battle in History : The Dramatic Full History : 23-26 October 1944

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ISBN 10: 0671536702 ISBN 13: 9780671536701

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1995

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Two hundred and eighty-two ships, some of them the largest and most powerful ever built... nearly 200,000 men, many sent to the bottom of the sea... a cast of characters that included MacArthur, Roosevelt, Halsey, and Nimitz... more than 100,000 square miles of fire and blood... they all came together in one unique battle, the singular turning point in the tide of WWII and in the history of warfare. Now, using materials previously unavailable, award-winning author Thomas J. Cutler captures the awe-inspiring heroism, the flawed strategies, the brilliant deception, and the brutal reality of the greatest naval battle of all time. From seaman to admiral, from aerial to surface to submarine combat, every facet, every weapon, every controversy-- on both sides of the firing line-- explodes off the page in this impressive account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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Capt. Edward C. Beach, U.S. Navy (Ret.) "Author of "Run Silent Run Deep" Leyte Gulf was the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere and this is beyond comparison the best account of it I've ever seen.

About the Author:

Thomas J. Cutler, a native of Maryland, enlisted in the Navy at the age of seventeen and retired twentyfive years later as a lieutenant commander. His naval career included a combat tour in Vietnam, service aboard many different ships, and nine years at the U.S. Naval Academy as a senior lecturer and associate chairman of the History Department. He is currently director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy in Baltimore, a professor of strategy and policy with the Naval War College, and a consulting editor for the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings and Naval History magazines. His published works also include Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, which received the Navy League's prestigious Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Naval Literature. He and his family live in Annapolis, Maryland.

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