01669cam a2200301 i 4500 243690370 TxAuBib 20151007120000.0 150618s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015009591 9780393080643 hardcover 0393080641 hardcover TxAuBib rda Toll, Ian W.,. The conquering tide : : War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 / Ian W. Toll. First edition. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015] xxxi, 622 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-594) and index. "This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide,' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal"--Dust jacket flap. 20151007. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese.