Published by Bantam in 2004, is the first full narrative account of the Battle off Samar, generally considered the greatest upset victory in the U.S. Navy’s history. Using eyewitness accounts, exclusive interviews, and previously classified documents, the book brings to vivid life the story of outgunned American sailors of the small task unit “Taffy 3,” who rose to an impossible challenge and turned back the largest battleship task force that Imperial Japan ever sent into combat. A main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club, Last Stand is a charter selection of the U.S. Navy’s Navy Professional Reading Program and the winner of the 2004 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. It was chosen as one of “a dozen Navy classics” by the U.S. Naval Institute’s Naval History magazine (December 2008 issue).


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