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Ian W. Toll
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
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Ian W. Toll (born 1967) is an American author and military historian who lives in New York City. He wrote The Pacific War Trilogy, a three-volume history of the Pacific War.[1]

Education

Toll graduated from

Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.[3]

Career

Early in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine.[3] Subsequently, Toll was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an equity research analyst at three investment banks, covering communications, software, and e-commerce stocks.[2][3]

Toll is the author of

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 covers the final months of the war from July 1944 to the surrender of Japan in September 1945, with the campaigns to retake the Philippines, the battle of Okinawa and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[4][3]

Toll has also served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and a lecturer at the Naval War College.

Awards

Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature[5][6] and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award.[2][7]

Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.

New York Times bestseller and was selected as the best book of 2016 by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times.[9][10] Twilight of the Gods was a New York Times Bestseller in 2020.[11][1]

In 2019, Toll was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Award by the USS Constitution Museum.

Books

  • Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, W. W. Norton, 2006.
    ISBN 0393058476
  • ISBN 9780393068139
  • ISBN 9780393080643
  • ISBN 9780393080650

References

  1. ^ a b Jordan, Jonathan W. (August 28, 2020). "'Twilight of the Gods' Review: A Blood-Soaked Peace". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ian W. Toll: Six Frigates - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago". pritzkermilitary.org.
  3. ^ a b c d "An Interview with Ian W. Toll, author of "Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945"". History News Network. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  4. ^ "Ian W. Toll". wwnorton.com.
  5. ^ "Latest NOUS Awards". Naval Order of the United States. Archived from the original on June 3, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  6. ^ "Previous Morison Book Awards". Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Colby Award for Military Writers : Colby Symposium". Colby Symposium. Archived from the original on December 22, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  8. ^ "Poetry Flash > programs". poetryflash.org.
  9. ^ "Best Sellers/Hardcover Nonfiction". New York Times. October 11, 2015. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  10. ^ "The Best Books of 2016". Financial Times. Financial Times. December 2, 2016.
  11. ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books Best Sellers: Twilight of the Gods". The New York Times. September 20, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

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