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by Ian W. Toll

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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.

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Praise for the Pacific War Trilogy:

THE CONQUERING TIDE

"A gripping narrative of the central Pacific campaign...Toll is strong on the operational details of battle, but he is no less skilled at presenting something that is frequently missing from military histories, a well-rounded depiction of the home front on both sides."
- Walter R. Borneman, New York Times Book Review

"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll's mastery of the naval-war narrative."
- Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal

"A lucid and learned exposition of the grand chess match between high commanders in the middle years of the Pacific War, vividly evoking the grit and gristle of its many horrors and triumphs. Ian W. Toll is a superb historian whose writing appeals to both the head and the heart."
- James D. Hornfischer, author of The Fleet at Flood Tide

PACIFIC CRUCIBLE

"Vivid, fast moving and highly readable."
- Ronald Spector, Wall Street Journal

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  • Title Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
  • Author Ian W. Toll
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 944
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date 2020-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780393080650 / 039308065X
  • Weight 3.35 lbs (1.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.8 in (24.38 x 16.00 x 4.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific, World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020009619
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

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  • Choice, 06/01/2021, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2020, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2020, Page 80
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/20/2020, Page 0

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