[Critique Group 1] Cleora's January 2022 submission 555 words

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Sorry about the invalid characters. I have tried a variety of ways of putting in the text, but they still get put in. No idea why. Working on it but don't have a solution at this time.
This is my attempt at a book review.
555 words
"Winds of Wrath" 
Taylor Anderson 
624 pages 
24.75 hours
hard cover $29.40
Kindle, Nook, eBook $9.95 
mass market paperback $8.99
hard cover ISBN 9780399587566
audio ISBN 9781541457324
Genre    Military science fiction, Alternate history, Parallel Universe
Taylor Anderson is A gun maker and forensic ballistic archeologist; Taylor has been a technical and dialog consultant for movies and documentaries. He is also a member of the National Historical Honor Society and the United States field artillery association which awarded him the honorable order of St. Barbara. He has a master’s degree in history and has taught that subject at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. He lives in nearby Granbury with his family.
He has skillfully used his knowledge, experience, and vivid imagination to create this engaging New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series--A science fiction alternate history tale about honor versus evil, love against hate, courage conquering terror, and how true friendship and understanding will always erode the foundations of bigotry. 
The series began in June, 2008 with "Into the Storm", and concludes with book 15 "Winds of Wrath," released in June, 2020.
If you haven't read the first fourteen, it is now safe to do so. The adventure is done, so no worries about it not being completed. 
At the beginning of the print and audio versions, there is an excerpt from the forward to the "worlds I've Wondered," University of New Glasco Press, 1956, by Courtney Bradford -- Australian naturalist and engineer that was aboard USS Walker when it crossed over, that recaps what has gone before.
The audio book is Narrated by P.J. Ochlan rather than William Dufris who was the narrator starting with book 11, "blood in the water." At the beginning, Ochlan gives a fine tribute to Dufris, who, sadly, lost his battle with cancer prior to the book's release. He isn't Dufris, but he is none-the-less up to the task. 
As in previous volumes, there is some strong language, and the battles are described in graphic detail.
The series chronicles the adventures of the crews of the destroyer USS Walker (DD-163) and the Japanese battlecruiser Amagi, in the early stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II, being transported to an alternate Earth. This Earth is relatively the same geographically as the one they left, but evolution took a different turn eons ago. 
After capturing the Grik capital in Africa in the last book, Allied armies march upon the increasingly desperate remnants of the Grik army commanded by First General Esshk. In the Caribbean, the Allies marshall their "modern" warships--including Captain Reddy's Walker, the captured super-dreadnought Savoie, and even newly built vessels from the Union, Empire and Republic--against a mighty armada of League battleships for a climactic duel of fire and flashes.
Loyal fans will not be disappointed. Taylor Anderson has concluded the series with a spectacular ending that, I am sure, will be satisfying to all those who have stuck it out to the end.
A warm personal note from the author appears where the list of characters, ships, weapons, and task forces provided in previous scripts would have been. The maps and diagrams of the ships are included in the print version, and all the rest can be found in the previous volumes, on the author's website, and on the thorough Destroyermen Wiki.