Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 3)

The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, â€œone of the great storytellers of warâ€ (Evan Thomas).
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of 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. Tollâ€™s narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are as gripping as ever, but he also takes the reader into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo, where the great questions of strategy and diplomacy were decided. Lionel Barber of the Financial Times chose the second volume of the series (The Conquering Tide) as the preemiment book of 2016, calling it â€œmilitary history at its best.â€ Readers who have been waiting for the conclusion of Tollâ€™s masterpiece will be thrilled by this final volume.
32 photographs; 20 maps
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780393080650
ReleaseDate 2020-09-01
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780393080650

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780393080650
ReleaseDate	2020-09-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780393080650

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 3)

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