Book Review #14 for 2025 is Thomas McKelvey Cleaver's Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign. A very good retelling of a critical part of US operations in the Pacific War. Cleaver's writing is balanced between the larger picture of strategy and politics and the human side of war. One thing I learned is that the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) nearly captured the USS Hornet as it founder but decided not to. ☕☕☕☕ #bookstodon #usnavy #HistoryMatters #bookreview @books @bookstodon
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