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Leyte Gulf: Armada in the Pacific (Captain Macintyre's Naval History of WWII Book 5) Kindle Edition

by Donald Macintyre (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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#1 New Release in Military Naval History
The epic true story of the largest sea battle in history.

An ideal book for readers of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully or Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer.

Between 23rd and 25th October 1944, nearly three hundred vessels, two thousand aircraft, and almost two hundred thousand men were involved in four separate engagements that have become known as the Battle for Leyte Gulf.

Although the odds of victory were slim for Imperial Japan, it risked the remnants of its fleet in an all-out effort to retain its conquests and safeguard its supply routes against the increasingly mighty American Pacific forces.

Donald Macintyre, veteran of the Atlantic U-boat campaign and renowned military historian, uncovers the story of this monumental engagement. He reveals who the prominent commanders were on both sides, what transpired during the four engagements of the Sibuyan Sea, Surigao Strait, Cape Engaño, and Samar, how the fleet carriers, battleships, cruisers, smaller ships, and air forces were utilized, and why the Japanese felt it necessary to resort to kamikaze attacks when all seemed lost.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the final efforts of the Imperial Japanese Navy to halt the oncoming Allied military forces.

‘an analytical account, vividly set out, of one of the most important yet tangled actions in the history of that war — the Battle of Leyte Gulf.’ Captain B. H. Liddell Hart
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DPFNDZPG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books (March 3, 2025)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2025
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • clifford deal
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very good historical series
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2016
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    A very good historical series, done before the "Revisionist" school took over. Includes a wealth of UN-cropped photos, if I recall from my first encounter with it in the 70's., including several shots of Japanese cruisers and US Escort carriers in the same frames. Well worth the cash.
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  • Dalton C. Rocha
    4.0 out of 5 stars The first book to read about Battle of Leyte Gulf
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2017
    Here in Brazil, some about three decades ago, I read this booklet.
    This small book is about the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in 1944 and has these main qualities:
    1- As I did about three decades ago, you can read this book, in just one day. In a few words: This book is concise.
    2- More than the half of this book are photos. All of them original and black & white photos.
    3- The author, and English seaman Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre DSO & Two Bars, DSC (26 January 1904 – 23 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a successful convoy escort commander. Donald Macintyre knew what he was writing about.
    4- This book is well organized. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was a confused battle, but this small book puts na order.
    5- Being writen about five decades ago, this book was writen, when persons making this battle, were still alive.
    This book has these main failures:
    1- Even writen by a seaman as Donald Macintyre (1904 – 1981), this book was writen, before the opening of Ultra code breakers. Thre's other books about this battle that uses desclassified information, not available, when this book was writen
    2- The maps of this book are just regular maps.

    After all, as the first book to read about Battle of Leyte Gulf, this book can be a good choice, five decades after being writen. For me, the informations on it were just enough. With many qualities and just a a few defects, I have to give four stars for this book.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very well preserved book as was advertised. An important ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2016
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    Very well preserved book as was advertised . An important addition to my library about a battle that had changed the course of the war in the Pacific during the tumultuous days of world war 2 .
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2014
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  • Kiwiwriter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Leyte Gulf is a gripping naval battle, and Donald MacIntyre renders a gripping introductory account of it in this book
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015
    McDonald Publishing and the Imperial War Museum teamed up back in the late 1960s and early 1970s to publish this tight series of illustrated paperbacks on the history of World War I, World War II (and a few other conflicts of the 20th century), which were picked up by Ballantine in the United States. They were all divided into subjects: battles, campaigns, weapons, war leaders, politics in action, human conflict, and regalia, by color bands on the bottom, enjoying common editing and artwork, and a fairly common collection of well-known historians. They cost $1 at the time (a good deal of money) and a lot more now (being out of print).

    The series as a whole is slightly outdated by the disclosures from Allied codebreaking, and suffered from being whipped together in a hurry, but they remain then and now a fine introduction to conflict in the 20th century -- if you can find them.

    Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history, and probably the last major fleet engagement the world will ever see, now that the Soviet Navy has gone out of business. It involved every aspect of 20th-century naval warfare -- carrier strikes, submarine attacks, battleship "Fire-Away Flanagans," destroyer torpedo attacks, Kamikaze attacks, immense controversies, and an amphibious assault. Some of the largest, powerful, and well-known warships in history (to that time) were involved in the battle, along with obscure destroyer escorts and escort carriers, meeting ghastly fates. The only thing lacking was an all-out battleship slugfest between the US Navy's modern battleships and any edition of their nautical rivals.

    The canvas of this battle was the ocean surrounding the Philippine Islands, and the combatants were the two largest and most powerful navies in the world, the US Navy, which was probably the best arm the United States fielded in the war, and the Imperial Japanese Navy, gambling its surviving ships, planes, and men on one last desperate throw of the dice to turn the tide of the war in the Pacific.

    When the smoke cleared and the guns fell silent, the Japanese pagoda forecastles headed back in retreat, leaving behind four carriers, three battleships, and a number of cruisers and destroyers on the Pacific bottom. The US Navy took some losses, missed a chance to completely eviscerate some of the surviving ships, but the equation came out the same -- the Imperial Japanese Navy was finished as a coherent fighting force. There would be a few more scattershot sorties by individual ships -- the Yamato's kamikaze voyage to Okinawa and the cruiser Haguro's doomed run to Singapore are two examples -- but Leyte Gulf marked the final effort of the Imperial Japanese Navy's battle line and carrier fleet. Leyte Gulf wiped the Imperial Japanese Navy off the Pacific Ocean.

    Donald MacIntyre was a serving Royal Navy officer turned naval historian, so he bring's a seaman's eye to this incredible battle, combined with a great deal of research and understanding. It's difficult to tell the story of this lengthy and widespread battle in the slim limits of a Ballantine book, but Capt. MacIntyre does a fine job. The usual excellent Ballantine maps and photographs back up his effort...one photograph is haunting, a poorly-focused shot of the Japanese battleships departing from Singapore's Lingga Roads on their ill-fated voyage, in the gathering dusk. It is the last time the Imperial Japanese Navy's battlefleet ever goes to sea.

    Because of the tight format, there isn't much for deckplate accounts, but the big picture decisions are covered well, along with an entire chapter on Vice Adm. Bill Halsey's decision-making process. I have often felt that Halsey should have been at Philippine Sea and Spruance at Leyte Gulf -- the results would have been much better in both situations for the Americans.

    However, none of this detracts from the power. Leyte Gulf is a gripping naval battle, and Donald MacIntyre renders a gripping introductory account of it in this book.
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  • David D. Lawson
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the good Captain Donald MacIntyre best efforts!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2018
    I first read this fine book soon after it was available here in the states. I found that the writing was very clear and easy to understand. The text also very clearly explained the issues and conflicts of this vast naval battle. Also as a serving & senior naval officer of the Royal Navy. The author brings a lot of clarity and legitimacy to the story.

    Bottom line - If one is interested in a good naval story. then one could do a whole lot worst than to read this fine book!
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  • D. D Lawson
    5.0 out of 5 stars America's Trafalgar
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2005
    This is one of the best books that I have read about the US Navy's biggest fight so far and the reason why the Pacific even today is an American Lake. This Book has everything that a naval history bluff could ask for.

    What with a desperate enemy on the ropes. Who hopes to hold on to their ill gotten Empire against some very unfriendly Americans led by the Navy's version of Patton - Admiral William "Bull" Halsey.

    What follows is one glorious fight what with some very effective Submarine attacks, the Last Battleship Fight where the enemy gets their T crossed, the Destruction/ Sacrifice of the Japanese Aircraft Carriers, the Japanese Battle Line going against Jeep carriers & the Bulls Run. It's one hell of a story and its told very well indeed!
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