Leyte: The Last Great Sea Battle (Ebook)

23–26 October 1944

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was not one battle. It was four, fought across hundreds of miles of ocean in four days: submarines striking in the Palawan Passage, a superbattleship dying alone in the Sibuyan Sea, Pearl Harbor's ghosts crossing the T at Surigao, a decoy fleet that pulled the mightiest armada on earth out of position, and at dawn off Samar, a handful of destroyers and escort carriers charging the largest battleship ever built.

Leyte tells the whole battle as one continuous story, in depth.

Inside the book (10 chapters)

1. The Empire's Last Gamble: Japan's Shō-Gō plan
2. First Blood in the Palawan Passage: Darter & Dace strike
3. The Sibuyan Sea: the death of Musashi
4. The Night of the Old Battleships: Surigao Strait, in full
5. The Trap Springs Empty: Ozawa's decoy & Halsey's decision
6. Dawn Off Samar: Taffy 3's stand, in full
7. "The World Wonders": the message that stung an admiral
8. Cape Engaño: the last of Japan's carriers
9. The Divine Wind Is Born: the first kamikazes & the loss of St. Lo
10. The Reckoning: what Leyte decided

Every chapter includes

• A Key Facts box: dates, forces and losses at a glance
• Why It Mattered: what each action changed
• Plus a full Leyte timeline and a forces & losses table
• Authentic wartime photographs (U.S. National Archives)

38 pages.

Format: PDF ebook, instant digital download. Read on any phone, tablet or computer. Set in a large, easy-read type size.

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Original writing. Photographs from U.S. government and public-domain archives, credited inside the book.