The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
James D. HornFischer
February 2004

The perspective from which Hornfischer chose to write this book was a long well thought-out process for him. This story about the battle of the Leyte Gulf could have been told in many different ways and from many different points of view. However, I believe that Hornfischer chose the right perspective in which to write this book.
The book could have been told in a first person account.This account could have been of the adventures that that one person had on board one of the ships during the battle. This may have drawn the reader in to sympathize more with the character in the book. But I do not think that this first person account would have helped to show more details about how the entire battle played out. Another perspective in which Hornfischer could have written this book would have been in a third person view about with no short excerpt from any of the people in the battle. The book could have been told in a variety of perspectives. Most of these would have probably made a decently written book. The perspective that Hornfischer chooses to write with makes the book excellent.
Hornfischer chooses to write the book in a third person overview with insights on what the people in the battle actually said and did. The third person overview allows the reader to come to the book with a completely neutral mind. But, the books accounts of destruction and short exerpts of what the people in the battle actually felt makes you want to feel for the characters as they take to thier fight. This contrast makes the puts the reader on edge. This tenseness that the reader goes through makes this an excellent book.