The Rising Sun
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945, written by John Toland and published by Random House in 1970,[1] it won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction[2] It was republished by Random in 2003.[3]
A chronicle of the World War II rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the Japanese perspective, 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.”[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Toland, John (1970). The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Random House. ISBN 039444311X.
- ^ Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ a b Toland, John Toland (2003). The Rising Sun - The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Random House, 976 oages. ISBN 978-0-8129-6858-3(0-8129-6858-1).
