The Rising Sun Part 3 Of 3 Author:John Toland Part Three Of Three Parts THE RISING SUN is a factual, meticulously researched saga of people caught up in the flood of war, told as it happened -- muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of contradiction and paradox. John Toland lets events speak for themselves, and if any conclusions can be drawn, it is that there are no simple l... more »essons in history. History does not repeat itself: rather, human nature does. From the U.S.-Japanese negotiations in 1941 on through the Battle of Midway, the Bataan Death March and finally Hiroshima, Toland presents the drama of WW II from the Japanese point of view. THE RISING SUN is not only a blood-and-guts action story...it is the most readable and informative account of the Pacific war to date." (Chicago Sun-Times)« less