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'''''The Pacific War Trilogy''''' is a three-volume history of the [[Pacific War|war in the Pacific]], written by author<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-10-11/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html|title=Best Sellers/Hardcover Nonfiction|last=|first=|date=October 11, 2015|website=The New York Times |access-date=2016-12-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/09/20/hardcover-nonfiction/ |title=Hardcover Nonfiction Books Best Sellers: Twilight of the Gods |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 20, 2020 |author= |accessdate=September 20, 2020}}</ref> and military historian [[Ian W. Toll]]. The series was published by [[W. W. Norton & Company]]. Toll is a graduate of [[St. George's School (Rhode Island)|St George's School]] in [[Middletown, Rhode Island]]. In 1989, he received an undergraduate degree in American history from [[Georgetown University]]; in 1995 he received a master's degree in public policy from [[Harvard Kennedy School]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/ian-w-toll-six-frigates/|title=Ian W. Toll: Six Frigates |publisher=Pritzker Military Museum & Library}}</ref>
'''''The Pacific War Trilogy''''' is a three volume history of the [[Pacific War|war in the Pacific]], written by [[Ian W. Toll]]. It was published by [[W. W. Norton & Company]].


==Book series==
'''Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941{{endash}}1942''' is the first volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the opening phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the eastern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2011 (hardcover and Kindle) and 2012 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by [[Grover Gardner]] by Recorded Books in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/Pacific-Crucible/overview |title=Pacific Crucible |newspaper=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate= September 13, 2020}}</ref>
===''The Pacific Crucible''===
''[[Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941{{endash}}1942]]'' is the first volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the opening phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the eastern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2011 (hardcover and Kindle) and 2012 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by [[Grover Gardner]] by Audible Studios in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/Pacific-Crucible/overview |title=Pacific Crucible |newspaper=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate= September 13, 2020}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/pacific-crucible-war-at-sea-in-the-pacific-1941-1942-by-ian-w-toll-book-review.html |title=In the Air, On the Sea: Book Review of Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll |author=Michael Beschloss |date=November 25, 2011 |website=The New York Times |publisher= |access-date=September 12, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="nhf">{{cite web |url=https://www.navyhistory.org/2012/11/book-review-pacific-crucible-war-at-sea-in-the-pacific-1941-1942/ |title= Book Review: Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 |author=Rear Admiral Richard Gentz |date=2012 |website= |publisher=Naval Historical Foundation |access-date=September 13, 2020 }}</ref> The book was the winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2012 |title=31st Annual Northern California Book Awards |website=Poetryflash.org |accessdate=September 13, 2020}}</ref>


* 640 pp. (hardcover) {{ISBN|978-0-393-34341-0}}; [https://wwnorton.com/books/Pacific-Crucible/ ''Pacific Crucible'' at W. W. Norton].
'''The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942{{endash}}1944''' is the second volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the middle phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the central and southern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2015 (hardcover and Kindle) and 2016 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by [[P. J. Ochlan]] by Recorded Books in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Conquering-Tide/ |title=The Conquering Tide |newspaper=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate= September 13, 2020}}</ref>
* 22 hrs and 6 mins (audiobook); [https://www.audible.com/pd/Pacific-Crucible-War-at-Sea-in-the-Pacific-1941-1942-Audiobook/B0062CHMRE ''Pacific Crucible'' at Audible Studios].


===''The Conquering Tide''===
'''''Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944{{endash}}1945''''' is the final volume in the Pacific War trilogy written by best selling author and historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the final phase of the Pacific War, that took place in the western Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020 (hardcover and Kindle). It was also released as an audiobook narrated by P. J. Ochlan by Recorded Books in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393080650 |title=Twilight of the Gods |newspaper=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate= September 13, 2020}}</ref>
''[[The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942{{endash}}1944]]'' is the second volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the middle phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the central and southern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2015 (hardcover and Kindle) and 2016 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by [[P. J. Ochlan]] by Recorded Books in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Conquering-Tide/ |title=The Conquering Tide |newspaper=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate= September 13, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-grueling-archipelago-1443815294 |title=The Grueling Archipelago |author=Jordan, J. W. |date=October 2, 2015 |website=The Wall Street Journal |publisher= |access-date=September 13, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="dmn">{{cite web |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2015/09/26/history-review-the-conquering-tide-war-in-the-pacific-islands-1942-1944-by-ian-w-toll/ |title=Book Review: The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 |author=Staff writer |date=September 25, 2015 |website=The Dallas Morning News |publisher= |access-date=September 15, 2020 }}</ref> The book was a ''New York Times'' best selling non-fiction book.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/533062/the-conquering-tide-by-ian-w-toll/9780393353204 |title=The Conquering Tide |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Penguin Random House |publisher=|access-date=September 14, 2020}}</ref>

* 656 pp. (hardcover), {{ISBN|978-0393080643}}; [https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Conquering-Tide/ ''The Conquering Tide'' at W. W. Norton].
* 27 hours and 22 minutes (audiobook); [https://www.recordedbooks.com/title-details/9781490693668 ''The Conquering Tide'' at Recorded Books].

===''Twilight of the Gods''===
''[[Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944{{endash}}1945]]'' is the third and final volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the final phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the western Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020 (hardcover and Kindle). It was also released as an audiobook narrated by P. J. Ochlan by Recorded Books in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393080650 |title=Twilight of the Gods |newspaper=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate= September 13, 2020}}</ref><ref name="nyt2">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/books/review/twilight-of-the-gods-ian-w-toll.html |title=How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan: Book Review of ''Twilight of the Gods |author=Perry, M. |date=August 28, 2020 |website=The New York Times |access-date=September 19, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="bfg">{{cite web |url=https://bookandfilmglobe.com/nonfiction/book-review-twilight-of-the-gods/ |title=Book Review: ''Twilight of the Gods'': The magisterial final volume of Ian W. Toll's Pacific War trilogy |author=Jamieson, W. |date=September 1, 2020 |website=Book & Film Globe |publisher= |access-date=September 17, 2020 }}</ref> The book was a ''New York Times'' best selling non-fiction book.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/09/20/hardcover-nonfiction/ |title=Hardcover Nonfiction Books Best Sellers: Twilight of the Gods |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 20, 2020 |author= |accessdate=September 20, 2020}}</ref>

* 944 pp. (hardcover), {{ISBN|978-0393080650}}; [https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393080650 ''Twilight of the Gods'' at W. W. Norton].
* 36 hours and 46 minutes (audiobook); [https://www.recordedbooks.com/title-details/9781980090540 ''Twilight of the Gods'' at Recorded Books].


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater]]
*[[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II]]
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* [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere]]

* [[Imperial Japanese Army]]
==References==
* [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]
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* [[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II]]

* [[Southern Expeditionary Army Group]]
==Further reading==
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* [[South West Pacific Area (command)]]
*[[Antony Beevor|Beevor, A.]] (2014). ''The Second World War''. London: Orion.
* [[United States Pacific Fleet|Composition of the Pacific Fleet in December 1941]]
*[[Max Hastings|Hastings, M.]] (2011). ''Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
*[[Samuel Eliot Morison|Morison, S. E.]] (2001). ''[[History of United States Naval Operations in World War II]]'' (15 Volumes). The United States Navy's official history of World War Two.
*Roberts, A. (2011). ''The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War''. New York: HarperCollins.


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Latest revision as of 20:22, 23 July 2024

The Pacific War Trilogy
AuthorIan W. Toll
Audio read byGrover Gardner and P. J. Ochlan
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2011, 2015 and 2020
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, Kindle, Audiobook
WebsiteW. W. Norton & Company

The Pacific War Trilogy is a three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, written by author[1][2] and military historian Ian W. Toll. The series was published by W. W. Norton & Company. Toll is a graduate of St George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. In 1989, he received an undergraduate degree in American history from Georgetown University; in 1995 he received a master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.[3]

Book series

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The Pacific Crucible

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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 is the first volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the opening phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the eastern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2011 (hardcover and Kindle) and 2012 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by Grover Gardner by Audible Studios in 2011.[4][5][6] The book was the winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.[7]

  • 640 pp. (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-393-34341-0; Pacific Crucible at W. W. Norton.
  • 22 hrs and 6 mins (audiobook); Pacific Crucible at Audible Studios.

The Conquering Tide

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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 is the second volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the middle phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the central and southern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2015 (hardcover and Kindle) and 2016 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by P. J. Ochlan by Recorded Books in 2015.[8][9][10] The book was a New York Times best selling non-fiction book.[11]

Twilight of the Gods

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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945 is the third and final volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the final phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the western Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020 (hardcover and Kindle). It was also released as an audiobook narrated by P. J. Ochlan by Recorded Books in 2020.[12][13][14] The book was a New York Times best selling non-fiction book.[15]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Best Sellers/Hardcover Nonfiction". The New York Times. October 11, 2015. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  2. ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books Best Sellers: Twilight of the Gods". The New York Times. September 20, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "Ian W. Toll: Six Frigates". Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
  4. ^ "Pacific Crucible". W. W. Norton & Company. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  5. ^ Michael Beschloss (November 25, 2011). "In the Air, On the Sea: Book Review of Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll". The New York Times. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  6. ^ Rear Admiral Richard Gentz (2012). "Book Review: Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942". Naval Historical Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  7. ^ "31st Annual Northern California Book Awards". Poetryflash.org. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  8. ^ "The Conquering Tide". W. W. Norton & Company. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  9. ^ Jordan, J. W. (October 2, 2015). "The Grueling Archipelago". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  10. ^ Staff writer (September 25, 2015). "Book Review: The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  11. ^ "The Conquering Tide". Penguin Random House. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  12. ^ "Twilight of the Gods". W. W. Norton & Company. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  13. ^ Perry, M. (August 28, 2020). "How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan: Book Review of Twilight of the Gods". The New York Times. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
  14. ^ Jamieson, W. (September 1, 2020). "Book Review: Twilight of the Gods: The magisterial final volume of Ian W. Toll's Pacific War trilogy". Book & Film Globe. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  15. ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books Best Sellers: Twilight of the Gods". The New York Times. September 20, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

Further reading

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