Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

Bloomsbury presents Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by John Chancer. Now publishing in paperback, this is a 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, notably from 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 bee...