By Anthony P. Tully
Surigao Strait within the Philippine Islands used to be the scene of an enormous battleship duel in the course of the conflict of Leyte Gulf. as the conflict was once fought at evening and had few survivors at the eastern aspect, the occasions of that naval engagement were handed down in garbled bills. Anthony P. Tully pulls jointly all the current documentary fabric, together with newly chanced on money owed and a cautious research of U.S. military motion stories, to create a brand new and extra particular description of the motion. in different respects, Tully's narrative differs substantially from the obtained models and represents a big historic corrective. additionally incorporated within the publication are a few formerly unpublished pictures and charts that deliver a clean point of view to the battle.
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