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Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
Simon and Schuster
November 2006
On Sale: November 7, 2006
472 pages
ISBN: 0743252217
EAN: 9780743252218
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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
Annapolis graduate who led his destroyer on the last great
charge in the last great naval battle in
history. Sea of
Thunder climaxes with the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the
biggest naval battle ever fought, over four bloody and
harrowing days in October 1944. We see Halsey make an epic
blunder just as he reaches for true glory; we see the
Japanese navy literally sailing in circles, torn between the
desire to die heroically and the exhausted, unacceptable
realization that death is futile; we sail with Commander
Evans and the men of the USS Johnston into the jaws
of the Japanese fleet and exult and suffer with them as they
torpedo a cruiser, bluff and confuse the enemy -- and then,
their ship sunk, endure fifty horrific hours in
shark-infested water. Thomas, a journalist and historian,
traveled to Japan, where he interviewed veterans of the
Imperial Japanese Navy who survived the Battle of Leyte Gulf
and friends and family of the two Japanese admirals. From
new documents and interviews, he was able to piece together
and answer mysteries about the Battle of Leyte Gulf that
have puzzled historians for decades. He writes with a
knowing feel for the clash of cultures. Sea of Thunder is a taut,
fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the last great naval
war, an important contribution to the history of the Second
World War.
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