Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Book Overview

Now publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition from new and terrifying sources, notably the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472825497
• ISBN13: 9781472825490
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"