BOOK REVIEWMacintyre, DonaldLeyte Gulf: Armada in the PacificLondon, Macdonald & Co (publishers) Ltd, 19701.90$1. The book Leyte Gulf: Armada in the Pacific elaborates on the naval battle that occurred between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy. In October 1944, the last major battle of World War II took place, a naval engagement between the United States and the Japanese Empire. At the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Imperial Japanese Navy attempted to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet and defeat the American invasion of the Philippines. The result was the largest naval battle in history in Leyte Gulf. 282 warships, 20,000 sailors and aviators fought a series of night and day naval engagements over a large area of ​​​​the ocean, there were all types of combat in naval warfare, from aircraft carrier strikes to full battleship actions. Leyte was also the first battle of the war in which the Japanese used suicidal tactics with kamikaze planes. For Japan, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was a much-needed decisive battle that would halt the American advance across the Pacific. The Japanese Navy's last big gamble was t...