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Twilight of the Gods

War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

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Twilight of the Gods

By: 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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Great depth great narration solid story line

I have read hundreds of accounts of the Second World War and this ranks as one of the best series I have every read or listened to during my quest to understand what truly occurred during this period in American History.

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Ian Toll is a History God

Six Frigates remains my favorite Ian Toll book, but what can one say when a man with Ian Toll's talent for research, storytelling and detail, dedicates a large portion of his life to tell this story? Throughout the book I must have thought 100 times, "How much did Toll have to read in order to write this?" I recommend reading this with a map nearby, a large and detailed map. Tremendous work!

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Book deserves a better narration.

This was a remarkably well researched and well written book, and a fitting conclusion to the author’s trilogy about the Pacific War. However, I found it a disappointing performance to say the least. The reader uses the same monotonous cadence for virtually every sentence from Introduction through Epilogue. There is little life or emotion, just a grinding-it-out job of reading the words on the page. The book is poorly served by this.

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fantastic.

definitely within the top five World War II books or series of books of all time!

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WW2 1944 1945

Wonderful book well written and the Audible portion was fantastic! Don’t miss it if you are interested in this time frame .

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History at its finest

Ian W. Toll is one of our best historians, this is broad in scope and sweeping in content. Outstanding and highly recommended!

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Absolutely Great

One of the best trilogies long but greatly detailed and interesting thanks for writing such a good
book as a veteran and my grandfather was a medic in WWII

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Insightful.

I've been reading WWII history for forty-five years, and found this volume uniquely informative. Thanks.

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In incredible journey

This has been my second time through this Trilogy and it gets better the second time. Mr Toll has provided the reader with a gift profound in its scope and wise in its telling. Gift yourself prospective reader and make the journey.

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Great ending to the trilogy

Having now finished the 3rd installment on this series on WW2 in the pacific I can say that this is by far the best series I have ever read/ listened too.

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