Twilight of the Gods - Final Days of World War II - Pacific
Ian Toll's 3rd book of his masterful trilogy on World War II - Pacific. No author has compiled a history on World War II - Pacific to equal the breadth and depth of this momentous and varied conflict. Ian Toll's "Twilight of the Gods: War in the Pacific 1944-1945" provides the high drama of the Burma campaign, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Okinawa, plans for the invasion of Japan, the Russian invasion of Manchuria so long ago and so forgotten, and the final battle of the War - Houtou, Manchuria.
Top Recommendation for July
Twilight of the Gods- War in the Wester Pacific 1944 - 1945, by Ian W Toll
This spectacular book (the 3rd in Toll's great trilogy) reads like a novel and provides an accurate account of the last days of the War in the Pacific and Japan's final capitulation under great duress. Great detail on the battle of Leyte Gulf including the fateful decisions of Ozawa and Halsey...and terrific accounts of the bombing of Japan, the Russian invasion of Manchuria and Japan's final surrender.