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The opera house already showed its support to Ukraine on Feb. 27, when in a performance of "Twilight of the Gods," the corpse of Siegfried was wrapped in the Ukrainian flag.

“She was nearer to the enemy than any other American warship and therefore came in for special attention from enemy gunners,” he wrote in his recent book, “Twilight of the Gods.”

It might sound like an audacious stunt, but “Twilight of the Gods” is so appropriate.

Ian W. Toll is the author of the new book “Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945,” the final entry in his nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War.

Chester Nimitz, remains an important, but not crucial, subtext of “Twilight of the Gods,” the third volume of Toll’s superb trilogy on the Pacific War.