Sea of Thunder by Evan Thomas
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Overview: The biographer of John Paul Jones adds another valuable book to naval historiography with this study of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, the greatest naval campaign in history. He relates its events through the actions of four naval officers, Americans Admiral William Halsey and Commander Ernest Evans and Japanese admirals Takeo Kurita and Matome Ugaki. As their stories unfold, Thomas discloses the development and corporate cultures of two navies openly preparing to fight and finally getting down to it in 1941. The climax comes at Leyte Gulf, where Halsey’s overaggressive tactics exposed the invasion fleet off Leyte to Kurita’s surface force, which Evans’ destroyer Johnston helped repel (see James D. Hornfischer’s Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, 2004), and where Ugaki’s Kamikaze Corps debuted. Thomas has a notable knack for researching and writing tales of the sea that are entirely accessible to comparative landlubbers yet also enthralling for readers weaned on Samuel Eliot Morison and C. S. Forester. Heads up, WWII maritime collections, in particular.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History, War
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