Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, W.Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S.In 2019, Toll was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Award by the USS Constitution Museum. Twilight of the Gods was a New York Times Bestseller in 2020. 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. Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012. Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. State Department, and a lecturer at the Naval War College. Toll has also served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a cultural ambassador for the U.S. 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. He authored The Pacific War Trilogy, a three-volume history of the war in the Pacific. Toll is the author of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy.
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. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine. Career Įarly in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to U.S. Toll studied and received a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995. He then studied and received a degree in history from Georgetown University in 1989. Toll graduated from St George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. He wrote The Pacific War Trilogy, a three-volume history of the Pacific War. Toll (born 1967) is an American author and military historian who lives in New York City. 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.
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