Leyte (English Edition)

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now sepa-rates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowl-edge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Ameri-cans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose. This book is about the summer of 1944 when American forces recaptured Leyte.