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