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Leyte Gulf - A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle (Hardcover)
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Leyte Gulf - A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle (Hardcover)
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A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the
largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive
naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the
Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force
and forced to resort to suicide tactics. Leyte was a huge and
complex action, actually consisting of four major battles, each of
which are broken down in detail in this book, using original
sources. The plans of both sides, and how they dictated the events
that followed, are also examined critically. So much of the
accepted wisdom of the battle has developed from the many myths
that surround it, myths that have become more firmly established
over time. In this new study, Pacific War expert Mark Stille
examines the key aspects of this complex battle with new and
insightful analysis and dismantles the myths surrounding the
respective actions and overall performances of the two most
important commanders in the battle, and the "lost victory" of the
Japanese advance into Leyte Gulf that never happened.
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