No one has told the story of World War Ii in the Pacific, from beginning to bitter end, better than Ian W. Toll. … [A] brilliant trilogy. Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The First Wave and Avenue of Spies. Available for the first time in a beautiful boxed set, this prize-winning and best-selling trilogy will stand as the first complete history of the Pacific War in more than twenty-five years, and the first multivolume history of the Pacific naval war since Samuel Eliot Morison's series was published in the 1950s. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.s. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific War, when the U.s. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.Continuing the "marvelously readable dramatic narrative" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Conquering Tide encompasses the heart of the Pacific War - the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944.