The Rising Sun

"The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945", written by John Toland and published by Random House in 1970,cite book | last =Toland | first =John | title =The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 | publisher =Random House | date =1970 | location = | pages = | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=R8rqAAAACAAJ&dq=%22The+Rising+Sun%22&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=2_0 | doi = | id = ISBN 039444311X ] it won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fictioncite web | title = Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction | work = | publisher =pulitzer.org | date = | url =http://www.pulitzer.org/ | format =web | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-28 ] It was republished by Random in 2003.cite book
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first =John Toland
title =The Rising Sun - The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
publisher =Random House
date =2003
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pages =976 oages
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id = ISBN 978-0-8129-6858-3(0-8129-6858-1) ]

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.”

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