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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-10
- 0393868303
- EAN
- 9780393868302
- ISBN
- 9780393868302
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Military / Strategy, Military / United States
- Release Date
- 17/08/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 32.9 Oz
- Series
- Pacific War Trilogy
- Book Title
- Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- Publication Name
- Twilight of the Gods
- Title
- Twilight of the Gods
- Subtitle
- War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Number of Pages
- 944 Pages
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New York Times Bestseller The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of War" (Evan Thomas). In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No tactical masterstroke or blunder could reverse the increasingly lopsided balance of power between the two combatants. The War in the Pacific had entered its endgame. Beginning with the Honolulu Conference, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with his Pacific theater commanders to plan the last phase of the campaign against Japan, Twilight of the Gods brings to life the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized in atomic blasts. Ian W. Toll's narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are as gripping as ever, but he also reconstructs the Japanese and American home fronts and takes the reader into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo, where the great questions of strategy and diplomacy were decided. Drawing from a wealth of rich archival sources and new material, Twilight of the Gods casts a penetrating light on the battles, grand strategic decisions and naval logistics that enabled the Allied victory in the Pacific. An authoritative and riveting account of the final phase of the War in the Pacific, Twilight of the Gods brings Toll's masterful trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. This prize-winning and best-selling trilogy will stand as the first complete history of the Pacific War in more than twenty-five years, and the first multivolume history of the Pacific naval war since Samuel Eliot Morison's series was published in the 1950s.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393868303
ISBN-13
9780393868302
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050064096
Product Key Features
Book Title
Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / Strategy, Military / United States
Publication Year
2021
Genre
History
Number of Pages
944 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
32.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
3
Reviews
[A] magnificent saga of the last year of the Pacific War...every bit as captivating as his first two [volumes]--Pacific Crucible and The Conquering Tide., [A] magnificent saga of the last year of the Pacific War.... A wonderful teller of war stories, Toll is also a shrewd cultural observer., Combining beautiful prose with the gritty and bloody realities of the island hopping strategy, Toll's third and final volume has been eagerly awaited by scholars and military history aficionados alike., Mr. Toll weaves a brilliant final act depicting one of humanity's epic tragedies. This book and its predecessors set a high bar for historians of the Pacific War., No one has told the story of World War II in the Pacific, from beginning to bitter end, better than Ian W. Toll., Toll [is] the fitting inheritor of a tradition of writing that began with the naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison.... Toll's trilogy... is exhaustive and authoritative and it shows the Navy in World War II as it really was, warts and all., I've been a fan of Ian W. Toll's since his first book, Six Frigates, but this concluding volume of his Pacific War Trilogy has taken him to another level altogether. Twilight of the Gods grabs you from the beginning and doesn't let go until the very end--an epic masterpiece of military history., No one has told the story of World War II in the Pacific, from beginning to bitter end, better than Ian W. Toll. This final volume concludes a brilliant trilogy. Elegant and supremely readable--don't miss the finest military history of 2020., Toll weaves a brilliant final act depicting one of humanity's epic tragedies. This book and its predecessors set a high bar for historians of the Pacific War., In his masterly narrative, Ian W. Toll brings clarity and a stinging immediacy to America's long, bitter climb up the island ladder that led to Japan. With deft, incisive character sketches, Toll summons the leaders back to contentious life: arguing about what to do, making mistakes, bringing triumph out of disaster--and sometimes the reverse. This is maritime history at its best and most accessible., The Pacific Theater has had entire libraries of histories written about it over the last seven decades... Toll has written a trilogy fit to stand with some of the best of them., Toll's expertly navigated narrative includes a number of new insights...It is exhaustive and authoritative and it shows the Navy in World War II as it really was, warts and all., Written with flair and chock-full of stories both familiar and fresh, this monumental history fires on all cylinders. WWII aficionados will be enthralled., Using meticulous research, including previously untapped primary sources, and a brisk narrative that combines strategic, operational, and personal perspectives, [Toll] presents a very balanced look at the critical decisions and actions on both sides that concluded the war.
Dewey Decimal
940.5426
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Pacific War Trilogy Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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