The struggle for a colorblind society is an ongoing challenge. The equality they had experienced at war was often rescinded when they returned home. The returning Black soldiers faced special challenges. Ultimately that post war freedom and the introduction of the pill in the sixties gave birth to contemporary feminism.
Woman experienced more freedom and we're often unwilling to return to their former roles. Clearly the war changed America in ways never expected. They faced challenges getting home and greater challenges when home. The book ends with the return of the American veterans. Neither MacArthur or Halsey comes off without character flaws. Even the emperor's decision to surrender was meet with a threatened coup. Clearly the American population advantage and industrial capacity make the outcome inevitable but the Japanese character makes its surrender difficult even after the atomic bombs.
The brutality of the amphibious landings on Iwo Jima and Okinawa show how terrible the battles were for both sides. The Japanese challenge is reconciling its defeat with its national character. One can't look at a successful war as a grand thing US naval and air superiority means there is never any doubt that Japan will lose the war. It certainly Leaves the reader with a sense of the horror of war. The brutality and otherworldliness of the fighting seemed more immediate. Listeners who have been waiting for the conclusion of Toll's masterpiece will be thrilled by this final volume.Īs with the two prior volumes I felt I was experiencing the Pacific war through the eyes of the Americans and the Japanese. Lionel Barber of the Financial Times chose the second volume of the series ( The Conquering Tide) as the preemiment book of 2016, calling it military history at its best. Toll's narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are as gripping as ever, but he also takes the listener into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo, where the great questions of strategy and diplomacy were decided. Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the US 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 last man on one island after another B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized in atomic blasts. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas). The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W.
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