Ian W. Toll, Author . Norton $27.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-393-05847-5
Toll, a former financial analyst and political speechwriter, makes an auspicious debut with this rousing, exhaustively researched history of the founding of the U.S. Navy. The author chronicles the late 18th- and early 19th-century process of...
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Ian W. Toll. Norton, $32.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-393-06813-9
Prize-winning freelance naval historian Toll (Six Frigates) chronicles one of the U.S. Navy’s finest performances of WWII in this page-turning narrative of the months following the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor. Eyewitness accounts and...
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Ian W. Toll. Norton, $35 (672p) ISBN 978-0-393-08064-3
This solid second volume in naval historian Toll’s planned three-volume history of the U.S. Navy in the WWII’s Pacific Theater (after 2012’s Pacific Crucible) follows the campaign from the summer of 1942 through the summer of 1944. Those two years...
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Ian W. Toll. Norton, $40 (864p) ISBN 978-0-393-08065-0
Historian Toll (The Conquering Tide) brings his Pacific War trilogy to a dramatic conclusion in this expertly told account of the final year of WWII. After an intriguing examination of how FDR directed the efforts of U.S. military commanders Douglas
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Ian W. Toll, Author, Stephen Lang, Read by , read by Stephen Lang. S&S Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3684-4
It's hard to imagine a better place for listening to this shrewdly abridged, excitingly read audio version of Toll's impressive history of the founding of the United States Navy than aboard some sort of seagoing vessel. One of Patrick O'B
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