Tidal Wave
From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay
by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
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Pub Date May 22 2018 | Archive Date Jul 19 2018
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Description
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 25 October 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting an enemy that had been inconceivable until it appeared. The kamikaze, '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.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781472825483 |
| PRICE | $32.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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Featured Reviews
Craig P, Educator
I love a good military history book. The war in the Pacific has been pretty well covered before now up to the battle for Okinawa. What makes this book different is its treatment of the events leading up to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay on board the USS Missouri. Very little had been previously written about the British Pacific Fleet or the naval bombardments of the Japanese home islands. Cleaver has given a colorful description of these previously little known events. I gave this book only four stars due to the sometimes cumbersome recitations of units, ships, and numbers of shot down aircraft, on both sides. Those things are certainly part of warfare but they were hard to plod through.
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