Twilight of the Gods
War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
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P.J. Ochlan
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Ian Toll
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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 US 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 listener 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. Listeners who have been waiting for the conclusion of Toll's masterpiece will be thrilled by this final volume.
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- dgrv
- 18/10/2021
Reference book about the war in the Pacific
A brilliant conclusion to the best, most complete works I've seen about the War in the Pacific. I learned so much, everything is contextualised and the writing covers every level from individual experiences to International strategy and politics.
A clear and powerful work of synthesis about a very complex period, including, here, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the drop of the atomic Bombs and the subtle and difficult secret inside negotiations between the war and peace parties in Japan.
This is a must-read for anyone interested in this period and willing to invest the time. You will not regret it.
I really liked the audiobook and the interpretation, although I regret the absence of an accompanying pdf with maps and statistics, that would have really helped. This is my biggest misgiving about it.
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