World War II

FINAL ACT IN THE PACIFIC THEATER

, which covers 1944 and 1945, completes naval historian Ian Toll’s much-lauded trilogy on the Pacific War at sea between the United States and Japan. The first two volumes, 2012’s and 2016’s , carry the story from Pearl Harbor to Midway, then Guadalcanal to the Mariana Islands. This one picks up in the United States, with a vivid and shrewd account of

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