from lamour

Largely an known story, the US Third Fleet was hit by an emense typoon off the coast of the Phillipines in December 1944. Three ships were sunk by the waves and winds killling almost 900 seamen. This volume describes how these ships became caught up in this situation, how they tried to survive an...

from kmapsrule

Rivetting, This is the first book in a while that I read cover to cover without stopping. I had not heard of this event in history, and the authors did an outstanding job of chronicling it.

from CaitlinTreacy

I'm landlocked, and have only ever sailed on the open sea once in my life (45+ years ago, at age 5, in the fog, from Alaska to California). So, I have no real knowledge of the sea apart from what I've see on TV and in movies, and from what I've read in books and magazines. The authors did such a ...

from mysterymax

My feelings about the book overall would rate it a four out of five stars, however there were so many characters that it was work keeping people straight. I felt that the author could have made changes that would have the characters easier to follow. It is a very gripping story of the typhoon th...

from Whiskey3pa

The stories of the destroyers lost to the typhoon are compelling and intense. The book provides a lot of background that felt a little tedious, possibly for an unfamiliar reader this was less so. Once thru this part of the book it takes off and is hard to put down. The individual experiences are ...