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040			_cLibrary of People’s Majlis
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245			_aTwilight of the Gods : _bWar in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 / _cIan W. Toll
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c2020
300			_axv, 926 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps, portraits ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical index.
505			_a1939-1945, Informational works, Military campaigns, Military operations, Naval American, Military operations, Naval Japanese, Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American, World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese.
520			_a"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 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. Lionel Barber of the Financial Times chose the second volume of the series (The Conquering Tide) as the preeminent book of 2016, calling it "military history at its best." Readers who have been waiting for the conclusion of Toll's masterpiece will be thrilled by this final volume"-- Provided by publisher
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