01950cam a2200337 4500 1022629121 TxAuBib 20201110120000.0 201023s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020-009619 9780393080650 039308065X TxAuBib Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 / Ian W. Toll. War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945. 1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. xv, 926 p., [32] p. of plates : .ill ; 25 cm. Pacific War trilogy ; ; 3 Sequel to "Pacific Crucible," #I and "The conquering tide" #II. Includes bibliographical references (pages 793-879) and index. 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. 20201023. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese. Military strategy United States. Pacific War trilogy ; ; 3. TXNES