Description of the book (from publisher): Beginning with the Honolulu Conference, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with his Pacific theater commanders to plan the last phase of the campaign against Japan, Twilight of the Gods brings to life 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 reconstructs the Japanese and American home fronts and takes the reader into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo, where the great questions of strategy and diplomacy were decided.
Michael and David discuss Ian Toll’s Twilight of the Gods. It is the final volume of the Pacific War Trilogy and concludes our journey (for now) in the Pacific Theater.
Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Gods-Western-Pacific-1944-1945/dp/039308065X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1697126611&sr=8-1
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