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Tidal Wave

From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

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Tidal Wave

By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
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The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that had the Navy faced a different enemy the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

However, in the moment of victory on October 25, 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting an enemy that had been inconceivable until it appeared. The kamikaze, meaning 'divine wind' in Japanese, was something Americans were totally unprepared for; a violation of every belief held in the West. The attacks were terrifying: regardless of the damage inflicted on an attacking airplane, there was no certainty of safety aboard the ship until that airplane was completely destroyed.

Based on first-person accounts, Tidal Wave is the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from the victory at Leyte Gulf to the end of the war, in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.

©2018 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (P)2018 Tantor Audio World War II Naval Forces 20th Century Wars & Conflicts Imperial Japan Aviation Military War Air Force US Air Force Modern Armed Forces Americas
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I really enjoyed this book a lot! highly detailed accounts of the battles for Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, & Okinawa from the air, sea, & land. narration was perfect, and the accounts of each engagement were superb! highly recommended!

astounding read!

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I really enjoyed this book! Excellent narrative and a great story well worth telling aloud.

WW II Naval Air Warfare Pacific

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It bounces around in a hard to follow manner. It’s just a bunch of facts with small blurbs of a story here and there. It is interesting with the facts of various battles, but it’s a tough listen. There is a reason it is free.

Choppy read

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There are some inaccuracies in the story including Alaska which they call a battle cruiser which it is not it’s a large cruiser someone who writes history should know that or at least know how to look it up.

Has some inaccuracies

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The story was read to fast , but it covers from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day and the occupation of Japanese

Good story

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