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3.8/5 Barnes & Noble | 4.2/5 Originally published 1970 Genre Non-fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Similar John Toland books, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners, World War II books |
History book review the rising sun the decline and fall of the japanese empire 1936 1945 mode
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945, written by John Toland, was published by Random House in 1970 and won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It was republished by Random House in 2003.
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, it 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."
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