Tidal Wave
From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay
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Tidal Wave
Narrated by:
Tom Perkins
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Tom Perkins
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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.
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There are plenty of stories here I'd never heard before. This is, in part, due to the level of detail on offer here. The names of so many people, both allied and Japanese is testament to the work put into this book.
There were three stories of humanity shown in the face of inhumanity that in two cases, had some form of resolution over 50 years later. Small, personal accounts that might otherwise have been lost to history.
There is an awful lot of information to absorb here, so it can be difficult at times to know what accounts relate to what battles. This is where I agree with another reviewer who stated that the book wasn't particularly well structured. I'd be reading a lot of the time and wasn't' sure which battle or action was being referred to. It was a stream of information that seems to be a linear progression through multiple campaigns with little delineation. This didn't mar my enjoyment of the book, just made it harder to grasp the bigger picture. This less organized approach resulted in the Japanese Emperor's surrender speech being included twice in the course of the book.
Narration was good, with the reader able to pronounce complex Japanese titles and names well.
One aspect that was sadly not followed up on in any detail, was the revelation at the beginning of the book how some 20 years after the war, Japanese children and young adults were not taught the truth about the way Japan waged the war. I'd have been fascinated to know what they were taught about the war. All we find out is how a young Japanese pen pal was shocked upon hearing an American's version of the events of the war.
Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay is a richly detailed account of the conflict in the latter part of the Pacific campaign as told from the point of view of the men who fought it. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a lower level account, rather than the overall picture so many books cover.
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