…the third volume of Toll's superb trilogy on the Pacific War…is a study as detailed as it is unsparing, with [Ernest] King, [Chester] Nimitz, [Raymond] Spruance and [William] Halsey as pivotal to victory in the Pacific as George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton were to the victory in Europe. And while the names of these Navy giants do not roll off the tongue as readily now as those of their celebrated Army counterparts, they should—with Nimitz emerging as the true architect of America's Pacific naval strategy and Spruance as his masterly, if sometimes overly careful, tactician…[Twilight of the Gods] is exhaustive and authoritative and it shows the Navy in World War II as it really was, warts and all.