Ian W Toll
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 622 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide,' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 597 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xii, 560 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Describes the origins and early history of the American Navy, discussing the debates by the founding fathers over the need for a permanent military, the decision to construct six heavy frigates, the campaign against Tripoli, and the War of 1812.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 926 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"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, whenthe 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...