Sink the Haguro!, John Winton
Sink the Haguro!, John Winton
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Sink the Haguro!
The Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War

Author: John Winton

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/07/2023

Synopsis

An engrossing history of the last major naval battle in World War Two's Pacific War.

In the late hours of 15th May 1945, the radar operator aboard the destroyer Venus identified a spot of light on his screen. Captain Power was in no doubt that this was the heavy cruiser, Haguro, that they had been searching for, but how could he stop this formidable enemy ship as it steamed hard for Singapore? A trap of torpedo and naval artillery was set by the 26th Destroyer Flotilla, there was no escape for the Haguro.

Drawing upon ships action narratives, message files, diaries, photographs and the memories of the officers and men of the Destroyer crews, the aircrews of Avenger, Liberators and Catalinas, from submarine captains, and from one of the Haguro's own officers has allowed the author to provide thorough insight into the last major open sea battle of the Second World War.

John Winton uncovers what it was like for these men in the weeks and months prior to that fateful night, how the Royal Navy had been searching for Japanese ships in the Far East and why vital inceptions from ULTRA and the code-breaking specialists was so essential to helping the Allied navy.

About John Winton

John Winton joined the Royal Navy in 1949 as a cadet and retired in 1963 as a Lieutenant-Commander. He is widely known as a novelist and historian of the sea. His books include the novels A Drowning War and Aircraft Carrier, and works of non-fiction such as Find, Fix and Strike: The Fleet Air Arm at War 1939-45, War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, Air Power at Sea 1939-1945, The Death of the 'Scharnhorst', Ultra at Sea, and Ultra in the Pacific. He died in 2001.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mr Michael R on May 14, 2022

More Than The Title Suggests It starts with the attack on the Haguro and then moves to a short history of the Navy's a activities in the Far East before returning to the Haguro action. A well written and informative account of the action and a short a count of its aftermath. Well worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by gpt999 on March 30, 2022

When I selected this book to read from Kindle Unlimited, I thought it would be about a specific ship hunt. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it also encompassed a nice little overview of the British Pacific fleet actions in late 1944-45. This is an area that has never been well documented as B......more

Goodreads review by D.M. on October 19, 2022

Battle in the East Detailed account of the sinking of a Japanese cruiser in 1945. Lots of names. I didn’t realise the vast number of mistakes that were made. Also that the Japanese often refused to be rescued. Brings home the brutality of war, when men delight in killing each other. Great store set on m......more

Goodreads review by Ron on January 30, 2022

A great read about one of the last destroyer actions by the British navy in the pacific during WW2. The story also told of the British navy’s action in the Pacific during the war. A truly inspirational read! The heroism shown by the the sailors manning these small destroyers against a much larger fo......more

Goodreads review by Gregg Tolbert on April 27, 2022

Needed for the serious study of WW2 This gives a good sense of the British naval war in the Pacific and Indian ocean areas. The US was the big bad who defeated the Japanese navy, but the British are in there and proud for what they did.......more

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