Title: Not worth the price ...
Product review: I bought this book because I thought it might have new material in it. I suppose the last chapters might satisfy this, but the book as a whole was disappointing. It is mainly an historical re-do of the US 3rd/5th Fleet's operations in 1942 - 1944, loosely centered on the typhoon.What really turned me off was a tin ear for the language of the sea and the arts of the mariner. The terms used to describe basic maritime activities are off base ... example; the reference to "helming' a ship. It was obvious early in the book that this was not written by anyone with any amount of sea time. The over-the-top language used to describe the typhoon was unseamanlike and repetitive.The book would have been much better had someone with a maritime background, and preferably command experience or group command experience, read a final proof and corrected it for terminology and style.
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