The rising sun : the decline and fall of the Japanese empire, 1936-1945

The Resource The rising sun : the decline and fall of the Japanese empire, 1936-1945

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The rising sun : the decline and fall of the Japanese empire, 1936-1945

Title remainder

the decline and fall of the Japanese empire, 1936-1945

Statement of responsibility

John Toland

Language

eng

Summary

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author's words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened--muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox." In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting and unbiased narrative history. In his Foreword, Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun, it is "that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history."

Award

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1971.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.5352

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D767.2

LC item number

.T58 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Modern Library war

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