Tidal Wave

From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

De: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Narrado por: Tom Perkins

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 October 25, 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting an enemy that had been inconceivable until it appeared. The kamikaze, meaning '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.

©2018 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (P)2018 Tantor Audio

astounding read!

I really enjoyed this book a lot! highly detailed accounts of the battles for Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, & Okinawa from the air, sea, & land. narration was perfect, and the accounts of each engagement were superb! highly recommended!

WW II Naval Air Warfare Pacific

I really enjoyed this book! Excellent narrative and a great story well worth telling aloud.

Choppy read

It bounces around in a hard to follow manner. It’s just a bunch of facts with small blurbs of a story here and there. It is interesting with the facts of various battles, but it’s a tough listen. There is a reason it is free.

Has some inaccuracies

There are some inaccuracies in the story including Alaska which they call a battle cruiser which it is not it’s a large cruiser someone who writes history should know that or at least know how to look it up.

Good story

The story was read to fast , but it covers from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day and the occupation of Japanese

great book

must read/listen to this story because many facts have not been heard or read for a long time

Fantastic! The views views with the best narrator !

This was the u-day... to almost lose after the-years of training to free Europe! Went

Horrible writing

The subject of this book looked intriguing, after reading Tolland, Hornfischer and the author's other book Pacific Thunder I thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately it has some serious flaws. It's horribly disjointed, going from fighter pilot minutia to quoting nearly the entire surrender speech of Hirohito in the same paragraph. I really don't know what to make of this, it's all over the place, shifting gears and focus to the point of distraction. Too bad didn't borrow it from the library instead of buying it.

very dry

minimal story, dry facts, audio seems computer constructed. disjointed at times. There are a few nuggets of interesting facts, but nothing inbellished.

no story

nothing but statistical plane names, nicknames and details with no congruent dates. skips all over. no underlying story.