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Ian W. Toll

Biography

Ian W. Toll

Ian W. Toll is the author of PACIFIC CRUCIBLE and SIX FRIGATES, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in San Francisco and New York.

Ian W. Toll

Books by Ian W. Toll

by Ian W. Toll - History, Nonfiction

THE CONQUERING TIDE 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 bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal.