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Title	:	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
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	March 29th 2005 by Bantam (first published November 12th 2003)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Military Fiction. Military. Military History. Naval History

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“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”

With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur’s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge into history.

In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, James D. Hornfischer paints an unprecedented portrait of the Battle of Samar, a naval engagement unlike any other in U.S. history—and captures with unforgettable intensity the men, the strategies, and the sacrifices that turned certain defeat into a legendary victory.


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Original Title:	The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
ISBN:	0553381482 (ISBN13: 9780553381481)
Edition Language:	English

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Exceptional story of courageMy father served in the Navy in World War II. Reading this gave me an idea of what he faced as a 17 year old shipped out to the Pacific. Well worth the time to read and appreciate

Originally published in 1953 this is a key factor in why this book is still relevant rather than a demerit against it's value. The author, Theodore Roscoe, is able to bring the fierce and dangerous experience of the little thought of ship to the forefront. Never getting the glamor that carriers or battleships receive, these little ships were everywhere and did everything. This includes protecting the aforementioned big ships. Told in a terrific chronological fashion, this book flips from

I had a conversation a while back with a soldier who'd distinguished himself in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. He observed to me that "A lot of heroes in a battle means someone screwed up bad." So it was in this tale of a desperate World War II naval battle against impossible odds that would have never occurred had the legendary Admiral "Bull" Halsey not been played for a sucker by the Imperial Japanese Navy. While Halsey chased a decoy force in his obsession to sink another Japanese carrier, a

There are just some books that sweep you up into their embrace and drag you helplessly through their tale until the conclusion is reached. "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" is just such a book, and should be required reading for all members of the sea services. I was aware of the circumstances of the Battle off Samar --- Halsey gorging on the bait of the decoy carrier fleet to the north and moving his fleet to attack; the undersized U.S. fleet that was left behind to face the mighty

Thursday, August 22, 2019The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailorsby James D. HornfischerThis is the third Hornfischer book I have read this year and in addition to a few other books about the U.S. Navy it describes the gallantry of the Navy. He mentions that unlike the ground soldiers Sailors had no foxhole to dive into during attack.I wonder whether my generation and later appreciate the sacrifices made by the veterans of WWII. World War II was a war that needed to be fought. Japan and Germany

If you like reading history books about World War II, the Navy or military subjects in general, this is a well written, gripping book worth reading. It's about a single naval battle toward the end of WWII off the coast of the Philippines, A tiny group of small US ships managed to survive (mostly) an intense onslaught by a huge group of Japanese vessels through a combination of luck, determination and strategy, with help from the "fog of war." The author interviewed many of the survivors of the

I was passingly familiar with the Battle of Leyte Gulf and Admiral Halsey, but I didn't know about the Battle off Samar, in which a handful of American escort ships charged and, incredible as it sounds, beat back a large Japanese fleet full of Goliaths like the Yamato, the largest-ever warship at the time.The courage and guts of this small naval battlegroup, called Taffy 3, reads like pure fiction, yet it isn't. A bunch of outnumbered and outgunned "peashooter" tin cans making a hopeless last