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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
The Rising Sun The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 19361945 Author:John Toland To research this book, John Toland and his wife, who is Japanese, spent fifteen months traveling through the Far EAst-Japan, jwo Jima, Okinawa, Taiwan, the Philippines, Guam, Saipan, Singapore, Malay and Thailand. Included among the almost five hundred people interviewed were the Emperor's chief adviser, the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido, top ... more »military leaders, members of Tojo's cabinet, hundreds of military personnel of every rank, as well as more than fifty survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author also interviewed numerous Americans, from President Truman and Admiral Nimitz to scores of prisoners of war.« less