Battle of Leyte Gulf by John Grehan
On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assisted by ships from the Royal Australian Navy. The Japanese were aware that the Americans were poised to attack the Philippines and planned to draw the American warships into one last great battle to try and stave off the otherwise inevitable defeat. Over the course of the following three days, the two naval forces engaged in four separate engagements. Involving more than 360 ships and 200,000 naval personnel, the battle was the greatest naval encounter of the World War II and possibly the largest naval battle in history. The result was disastrous for the Japanese who lost three battleships, four aircraft carriers, ten cruisers and eleven destroyers, along with almost 300 aircraft - the greatest loss of ships and crew the Japanese had ever experienced. In Battle of Leyte Gulf, the actions of the warships as well as the accompanying amphibious landings on Leyte by the U.S. Sixth Army are vividly revealed through a dramatic collection of photographs depicting the ships, sailors, airmen and soldiers who made history.-
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Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen
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The Malayan Emergency
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The Waffen SS Ardennes Offensive
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The Eighth Army in North Africa
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Himmler's Death Squad - Einsatzgruppen in Action, 1939-1944
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The Waffen SS at Arnhem
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Siege of Malta 1940-42
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Wingate's Men
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Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo
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Monte Cassino: Amoured Forces in the Battle for the Gustav Line
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The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
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The Americans on D-Day and in Normandy
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FV430 Series
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The Desert Air War 1940-1943
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M29 Weasel Tracked Cargo Carrier & Variants
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M65 Atomic Cannon
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Hermann Goring: The Rise and Fall
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German Self-propelled Artillery at War 1940 1945
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The Italian Campaign, 1943 1945
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The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943-1944
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Saipan 1944
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US Marine Corps in the Second World War
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German Reconnaissance and Support Vehicles 1939-1945
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Montgomery's Rhine River Crossing: Operation PLUNDER
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6th SS Mountain Division Nord at War 1941-1945
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The Fall of Berlin
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Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945
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M36/M36B1 Tank Destroyer
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The Battle of Okinawa 1945
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The Battle for Burma, 1942-1945
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The Vought F4U Corsair
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M7 Priest
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M12 Gun Motor Carriage
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Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows
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The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945
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Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West
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US Naval Aviation, 1945 2003
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Operation Nordwind
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Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940
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Red Army Auxiliary Armoured Vehicles, 1930-1945
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Operation Hoss
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Heydrich: Butcher of Prague
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Panzergrenadiers 1942-1945
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The Battle of Tinian
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The Ghettos of Nazi-Occupied Poland
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Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers
JOHN GREHAN has written, edited or contributed to more than 300 books and magazine articles covering a wide span of military history from the Iron Age to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. John has also appeared on local and national radio and television to advise on military history topics. He was employed as the Assistant Editor of Britain at War Magazine from its inception until 2014\. John now devotes his time to writing and editing books. ALEXANDER NICOLL has been involved in writing and publishing military history for thirty years. He began his career with local history, and has since written numerous books and magazine articles, predominantly on subjects relating to the two world wars.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526770394 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526770393 |
| Title | Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| Author | John Grehan |
| Series | Images Of War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-03-02 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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