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Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

Author:
Bob Drury , Tom Clavin
Read by:
Eric Conger
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Book
17
Narrator
2
Release Date
January 18, 2007
Duration
10 hours 47 minutes
Summary
A gripping true account of courage and survival at sea against impossible odds—and one of the finest untold World War II sagas of our time. In December 1944, while on a mission to support MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey unwittingly steered his fleet of 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon. The storm ultimately inflicted twice as much destruction and loss of life as the Battle of Midway, but Navy brass suppressed the scope of the disaster so as not to compromise the American advance on Tokyo. After the ensuing Court of Inquiry, Halsey never spoke again of the disaster. It is only now, thanks to documents declassified sixty years after the events and scores of firsthand accounts from survivors, that the story finally has been told.
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Profile Avatar glenice nickel Oct 2015

Did not like this book. Yo much detail made it hard to follow. Boring the story itself is a good one but this was over done with detail most people could not follow

Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

Author: Bob Drury
Read by: Eric Conger
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