Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II

“World War II produced so many compelling stories that even students of that momentous conflict are apt to discover we’ve missed whole vital episodes.

Down to the Sea, about a devastating 1944 Pacific typhoon that sank three destroyers and cost 756 American sailors their lives, is just such an eye- opener.” — New York PostFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers, an epic story opening at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and following four U.

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Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon.