Book description
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…
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2 authors picked Twilight of the Gods as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Ian Toll’s trilogy on the Pacific War is my first favorite trilogy for this year. The first volume (Pacific Crucible) came out in 2012; the second (The Conquering Tide) in 2015; and the final volume (Twilight of the Gods), which is the one I am recommending here, in 2020.
Collectively the nearly 2,400 pages chronicle the Pacific War not only in detail but in prose that is both commanding and lyrical, characteristics that are especially evident in the final volume.
The third and final book of the epic Pacific War Trilogy, Twilight of the Gods is the story of the crushing of the once venerable Japanese Empire. At just under 800 pages the book describes in the great detail the coming apocalypse for the Japanese war machine. While 1943 was pivotal with the war in the Pacific having essentially been won by the Allies, it was 1944 and 1945 where the real murder of empire happened. In these two years of horrendous fighting, hundreds of thousands died for what was clearly a lost cause. The Japanese tried one last time…
From Daniel's list on the war in the Pacific 1941-1945.
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