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The only book to dramatize, day-by-day, from both the Japanese and Allied points of view, the events surrounding this tragic, historic last mission of the biggest battleship ever built in the history of naval warfare. Chosen as a Main Selection of the Military Book Club". First-rate military history with an unusual human dimension"--Kirkus Reviews.
"A powerful, suspenseful work of history, a naval version of A Night to Remember"--San Francisco Chronicle.
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"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide, ' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered...
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Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
"On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent...
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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 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...
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Imperial Japan, in WWII, had become a shogunate dominated by the ancient samurai code of honor--that it is better to die than surrender. Vice Admiral Ugaki's fanatical suicide squad known as the "Divine Wind" would stave off defeat by giving even their lives. We also read about Admiral Onishi, a drinker and a gambler, and Lieutenant Seki obedient and loyal but tormented. Author, Warner, was a war correspondent aboard a ship that suffered 2 Kamidaze...
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