The Battle for Leyte Gulf

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s classic, New York Times–bestselling account of the epic WWII Pacific naval battle. In October of 1944, American and Australian forces mounted a joint attack on Japanese-occupied islands in the Philippines. To defend the territory, the Japanese committed virtually every fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial Navy, including two powerful new battleships of the Yamato class. But this supreme effort ended in their greatest defeat—and a tremendous victory for the United States Navy. C. Vann Woodward’s The Battle for Leyte Gulf recreates this pivotal battle in vivid detail and gripping prose. In the words of the New York Times, Woodward’s magisterial account is “so soundly documented that it is hard to see how anyone, ever, will be able to improve on it.” This edition features a new introduction by Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder.

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