Avenging Pearl Harbor av Keith Warren Lloyd

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<p>It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuity¿and perhaps the key to why the United States won a war that after Pearl Harbor seemed hopeless.<br/><br/>Impeccably researched deep in the archives at Pearl Harbor and Washington DC, Revenge of the Dreadnoughts is colorfully written, personal, chilling, visceral,<br/><br/>Historian Keith Warren Lloyd brings his gift for injecting life and personalities and heretofore untold stories of the men and women involved-¿members of what became known as The Greatest Generation¿whose heroism and sacrifice brought about the miraculous new life of a sleeping military force that was reeling and on its knees.<br/><br/>It is a story has never before been old in such detail and with such vibrancy.<br/><br/>On the night of 24 October 1944, a force of two battleships, one heavy cruiser and four destroyers from the Imperial Japanese Navy steamed into Surigao Strait in the Philippines. Their objective: to