Taken together, the book is both informative and insightful, while also a pleasure to read. His writing style is an easy-flowing narrative that adeptly combines both primary and secondary categories. Toll’s resources include a balance of primary source documents, contemporary materials, and memoirs or journals, along with the most reputable secondary sources, probably favoring the former. Twilight of the Gods is well researched and wonderfully written. Barclay’s “Imperial Japan’s Forever War, 1895–1945” are adding greatly to our understanding of World War II’s other half. These works, along with such others as Richard Franks’s in-progress Asia-Pacific trilogy and articles such as Paul D. More than 10 years in the making and spanning nearly 2,000 pages of text ( Pacific Crucible, 2011, and The Conquering Tide, 2015), Toll’s project makes a major contribution in this direction. This is part of a long-overdue correction, allowing the history of the Pacific theater to stand beside that of the European theater as an equal. Toll has completed his magisterial trilogy on America’s World War II campaign in the Pacific theater. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945, Ian W.
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