Occupation Author Name Ian Toll | Role Author Education Georgetown University | |
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Notable works Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy; Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942; The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944. Awards Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Books Pacific Crucible: War at Se, The Conquering Tide: War, Six Frigates, The Conquering Tide | ||
Ian W. Toll (born 1967) is an American author and military historian. He lives in New York City.
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Nysl ian w toll the conquering tide war in the pacific islands 1942 1944
Education
Toll received a degree in history from Georgetown University in 1989, and a master's degree in public policy (M.P.P.) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.
Career
Toll is the author of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy; Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942; and The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944. The latter two titles are the first two volumes of a nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War.
Earlier in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine. Subsequently, Toll was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an equity research analyst at three investment banks, covering communications, software, and e-commerce stocks.
Toll has also served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and a lecturer at the Naval War College.
Awards
Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award.
Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.
The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was selected as the best book of 2016 by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times.