I actually listened to the audiobook recently, and it's been one of the better ones I'd had. The book tells the story of the major typhoon that Admiral Halsey unwittingly took his Third Fleet directly into in December of 1944 off the Philippines. The book is well-written and narrated with the one exception that light carriers and escort carriers are both referred to as "jeep" carriers, a term that applied only to the escort variety. Light carriers such as the Monterey and San Jacinto mentioned in the book for in fact classified as fleet carriers as their speed allowed them to operated with the larger Essex class carriers. The CVE's, on the other hand, were significantly slower, and performed the various utility functions that earned them the term "jeeps".
But I digress. Great story, well-told, of the ships that sank during the storm and the ships that did not, and why. The authors eventually somewhat reluctantly conclude that blaming Halsey is only justifiable in hindsight. He simply did not have sufficient information for his actions to definitively be labeled as negligent. Certainly he made numerous mistakes and could have done better, but in the end, the losses of the various ships seem to have been attributable to their commanders' faults and flawed decisions, made with full knowledge of their ship's seakeeping defects - in each case defects that had been magnified, if not caused, by the addition of topside weight (in the form of additional weapons and equipment). Halsey didn't know he was sailing the fleet directly into a typhoon. Those ships' captains knew the faults in their ships and their either knew or should have know what they needed to do to preserve their ships in such a storm. They did not do enough, soon enough - that much was clear. In contrast, captains such as those of the destroyer escort Tabberer that not only weathered the storm but began rescue operations during it, and continued them in spite of orders from Halsey to rejoin the fleet (Halsey didn't know what the DE was doing, and revoked the order as soon as he learned). Or that of the light carrier Monterey who likewise disregarded Halsey's directive to abandon his ship when it was afire from wrecked aircraft in its hanger deck, and send Lt. Jerry Ford below with a firefighting team to put the fire out.
I knew little about this episode before this book, and it is a story I really enjoyed hearing.