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100	1		_aToll, Ian W., _eauthor. _914447
245	1	0	_aTwilight of the Gods : _bWar in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 / _cIan W. Toll.
246	3	0	_aWar in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2020]
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
501			_aP.B
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (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. 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. Lionel Barber of the Financial Times chose the second volume of the series (The Conquering Tide) as the preemiment book of 2016, calling it "military history at its best." Readers who have been waiting for the conclusion of Toll's masterpiece will be thrilled by this final volume."--
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _zPacific Area. _914448
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xNaval operations, American. _914449
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xNaval operations, Japanese. _914450
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