AuthorsLive: Ian Toll – Seapower and American History

Ian W. Toll is a writer and independent scholar. He is the author of three highly regarded works of American military history: ‘Six Frigates,’ ‘Pacific Crucible,’ and ‘The Conquering Tide.’ The latter two titles are the first two volumes of a nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War.  The third and concluding volume, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945, will be published in 2018.

Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, the William E. Colby Military Writers Award, and was placed on the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” list.  Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.  The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was named the best book of 2016 by the editor of the Financial Times.