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The last stand of the tin can sailors

James D. Hornfischer (Author)
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

Print Book, English, 2004
Bantam Books, New York, 2004