markm reviewed The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll (The Pacific War Trilogy, #2.00)
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4 stars
Volume 2 continues this excellent history of the Pacific theatre in WWII. As the author explains in his concluding note to the text, his work emphasizes the importance of the naval component of the campaign and proposes that the island-hopping that others have emphasized was secondary, all using an episodic instead of a chronological textbook technique with the several strengths mentioned in my review of volume 1. I recommend it highly.
