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Book

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

Call Number

  • 940.5426 T651.2 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]

Physical Description

xv, 926 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"The final volume of the Pacific War Trilogy from historian Ian W. Toll. Twilight of the Gods is an 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. Toll'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"--

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