The Battle for Leyte Gulf

“So soundly documented that it is hard to see how anyone, ever, will be able to improve on it.” –The New York Times “Masterful”—The New York Review of Books “An interesting and informative volume.“—The American Historical Review“So soundly documented that it is hard to see how anyone, ever, will be able to improve on it.” –The New York Times“Masterful”—The New York Review of Books“An interesting and informative volume.“—The American Historical Review

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most influential historians of the post-war period. He won a Pulitzer Prize and served on the historical staff of the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Evan Thomas was a reporter, writer, and editor at Newsweek for 24 years, a regular panelist on the weekly public affairs TV show, Inside Washington, for twenty years, and taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton between 2003 and 2014. For seven years, from 2007 to 2014, he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at Princeton. He is the author of Sea of Thunder: Four Naval Commanders and the Last Sea War.