Halsey's Typhoon by Bob Drury

Halsey's Typhoon by Bob Drury

Halsey's Typhoon is the story of World War I's most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William Bull Halsey is the Pacific theater's most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the Fighting Admiral and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur's flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the landings, Halsey attempts a complicated refueling maneuver and unwittingly drives his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon. Halsey's men find themselves battling 90-foot waves and 150 mph winds--amid the chaos, three ships are sunk and nearly nine hundred sailors and officers are swept into the Philippine Sea. For three days, small bands of survivors battle dehydration, exhaustion, sharks, and the elements awaiting rescue at the hands of the courageous lieutenant commander Henry Lee Plage, who, defying orders, sails his tiny destroyer escort, the US Tabberer, back into the storm to rescue drifting sailors. Halsey's Typhoon is a gripping true tale of courage and survival against impossible odds--and one of the finest untold World War I sagas of our time.

Tom Clavin has written or cowritten sixteen novels. He wrote for The New York Times for fifteen years and has contributed to publications such as Golf, Men's Magazine, Parade, Reader's Digest, and Smithsonian. He is currently Manhattan Magazine's investigative features correspondent. He is a resident of Sag Harbor, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780802143372
ISBN 10	0802143377
Title	Halsey's Typhoon
Author	Bob Drury
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2007-11-10
Number of pages	352
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