false 13492189 219692 79929 0812968581 9780812968583 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170974919m/79929.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170974919s/79929.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79929.The_Rising_Sun_The_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Japanese_Empire_1936_45 4.14 77 The Rising Sun 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.”

In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting and unbiased narrative history. In his Foreword, Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun, it is “that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.”]]> 3187882 3.91 486 75 1970 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 06:16:57 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 06:18:11 -0800 2008