Ian W. Toll | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 55–56) |
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| Notable works | Six Frigates: The Epic History of Founding of the US Navy ; Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 ; The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 ; Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945. |
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]
Toll graduated from St George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. [2] He then studied and received a degree in history from Georgetown University in 1989. [2] Toll studied and received a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995. [3]
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 Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy . He authored The Pacific War Trilogy , a three-volume history of the war in the Pacific. The volumes include: Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 , which covers the first six months of the war beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor and the war in the eastern Pacific with its climax at the Battle of Midway; The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944., which covers the period from June 1942–June 1944, covering the war in the central and southern Pacific, beginning with the Solomon Islands campaign, the following campaigns in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, and concluding with the Mariana and Palau Islands campaigns; the final volume, 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.
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. [8] The Conquering Tide was a 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.
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Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.
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Rear Admiral Frederick Lois Riefkohl, a native of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, was an officer in the United States Navy and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the United States Naval Academy and to be awarded the Navy Cross. The Navy Cross is the second highest medal, after the Medal of Honor, that can be awarded by the U.S. Navy for heroism or distinguished service. He was a World War I Navy Cross recipient who served as Captain of the USS Vincennes during World War II.
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The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Territory of New Guinea on 23 January and Territory of Papua on 21 July and overran western New Guinea beginning on 29 March. During the second phase, lasting from late 1942 until the Japanese surrender, the Allies—consisting primarily of Australian forces—cleared the Japanese first from Papua, then New Guinea, and finally from the Dutch colony.
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy is a book by Ian W. Toll, which was published by Norton in 2006. The book is a history of the original six frigates of the U.S. Navy.
William John (Jack) Read, was an Australian Coastwatcher on Bougainville Island in New Guinea during World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his service during World War II in the Solomon Islands campaign and the New Guinea campaign. His experiences and reports have become an important source for historians regarding the history of the coastwatchers.
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 is the first volume in the Pacific War trilogy, written by historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the opening phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the eastern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2011 and 2012 (paperback) and was released as an audiobook narrated by Grover Gardner by Audible Studios in 2011. The following volume in the trilogy, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944, was published in 2014; the final volume in the trilogy, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945, was published in 2020.
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 is the second volume in the Pacific War trilogy written by best selling author and historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the middle phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the central and southern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2015 and 2016 (paperback). It was released as an audiobook narrated by P. J. Ochlan by Recorded Books in 2015. The first volume in the trilogy, Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, was published in 2011; the final volume in the trilogy, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945, was published in 2020.
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945 is the final volume in the Pacific War trilogy written by best selling author and historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the final phase of the Pacific War, that took place in the western Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020. It was also released as an audiobook narrated by P. J. Ochlan by Recorded Books in 2020. The first volume in the trilogy, Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, was published in 2011; the second volume in the trilogy, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, was published in 2015.
The Pacific War Trilogy is a three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, written by best selling author and military historian Ian W. Toll. The series was published by W. W. Norton & Company. Toll is a graduate of St George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. In 1989, he received an undergraduate degree in American history from Georgetown University; in 1995 he received a master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.
This is a Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in East Asia, South East Asia, India and the Pacific. It aims to include the major theaters, campaigns and battles of the Asia-Pacific Theater of World War II. It is part of Wikipedia's larger effort to document the Bibliography of World War II. Its counterpart for the European, North African and Middle Eastern theater is the Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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