![]() Twilight of the Godsis the last of Toll’s magisterial, three-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. decision-makers who picked the commanders and determined long-term strategy. Toll’s unique approach is to skillfully interweave narratives of the bloody, on-the-ground combat with an in-depth look at the Washington D.C. The second type is the “big picture” or strategic view, such as A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, by Gerhard Weinberg. One example is Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which was the basis for the HBO mini-series The Pacific. The first is the hour-by-hour account of individual battles, often told via accounts of individual soldiers. Books about World War II generally fall into two categories. ![]()
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