The Rising Sun [electronic resource] : The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Toland, John2014
eAudioBook
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.
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Author:
Toland, John, AuthorWeiner, Tom, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Biography/History:
John Toland (1912–2004) was an award-winning
American author and one of the most widely read military
historians of the twentieth century. His most well-known work is perhaps <i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The Rising Sun, winner
of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the first book in English to tell the story of the Pacific War from the Japanese perspective. Although primarily an author of historical nonfiction, Toland also wrote novels, plays,
and short stories. Among his published books were four <i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">New York Times bestsellers: <i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">But Not in Shame, <i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The Last Hundred Days, <i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Adolf Hitler, and <i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Infamy.
ISBN:
9781482993929
Language:
English
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BRN:
357671