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# Pacific Crucible – War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (Pacific War Trilogy) Paperback – Illustrated, 20 Nov. 2012

**Brand:** ian w. toll
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- **What is this?** Pacific Crucible – War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (Pacific War Trilogy) Paperback – Illustrated, 20 Nov. 2012 by ian w. toll
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Superbly written
  

*by G***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2024*

This is the first in a three volume set. And quite simply is the best telling of the Pacific theatre of war II.Sublimely written. It goes into detail about the start of the conflict through to 1942.The major thing is that it's not dry in it's writing. Some WWII books are hard to follow, due to the laborious way they're presented. This book is not in that category. And flows effortlessly, while describing in detail every event.I had to wait a week for these three volumes to arrive from the u.s. and can honestly say that I was glad I did.Extremely reccomended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Reads Like a Great Novel
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2012*

This is an account of the Pacific War at sea from Pearl Harbor to Midway. It is, apparently, the first of a trilogy going all the way to the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay and beyond.It starts with an explanation of the Big Battleship paradigm of the great Naval thereorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), developed in his masterwork, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890). Don't be put off by this, as it is vitally important to Toll's main theme, which is that the Japanese and American navies, steeped in Mahan both, were quite slow to realise that the war at sea in WW II was going to be won by submarines and aeroplanes, not the huge battleships on which so many of their resources were lavished in the 1930s. Once it really gets going, after Pearl Harbor, the book is unputdownable. Toll is good on everything - strategy, tactics, intelligence, materiel, the personalities involved (FDR, Churchill, Nimitz, King and Yamamoto especially) -and the battle sequences are vivid, clear and thrilling. He has an eye for detail that brings the scene to life in an instant - the smell of paint burning on the flight deck, the roar of a Zero overhead, the colour of a sunset the night before battle - and a gift for lucid explanation that makes it easy to follow what happened and why. He is something like Beevor and Hastings in this, but his prose is more supple, his focus broader and his tone more relaxed. He is also less judgmental than Hastings and less preoccupied with atrocities than Beevor.In short, this reads like a great novel. Really like War & Peace at times. You feel like you are living as well as understanding it. If only all history books were like this!I cannot wait for the next two.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Magnificent
  

*by G***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2018*

Ian W Toll's book is the first of his war in the Pacific trilogy and this is an excellent well written account of America's first year in the Pacific in World War 2.  It begins with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, then we have the battle of Wake Atoll, Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, Admiral Halsey's raid on the Marshall Islands, the battles of the Sundra Strait and Java Sea, which was a major allied defeat, to the battle of the Coral Sea and ends with the decisive battle of Midway.  Every battle and raid is covered in incredible detail, and this book was definitely a page turner.  My only gripe was that there did not seem to be that much written on the disaster at Pearl Harbor at the books beginning, then it veers off into politics of when President Roosvelt took America into the War, then the damage and casualties at Pearl Harbor.  Book 2 of the trilogy is just as good as this first book, and anyone interested in the war at sea in the Pacific during the first year of World War 2, this is an essential read.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 1)
- The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

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