The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer Paperback Book

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Rent The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

Author: James D. Hornfischer

Format: Paperback, Abridged-CD

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group

Published: Mar 2005

Genre: History - Military - World War Ii

Retail Price: $25.00

Pages: 499

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Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a flotilla of the Japanese Navy, a struggle that changed the course of World War II in the Pacific. Reprint. 37,500 first printing.

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