The Rising Sun book John Toland 1970 First edition stated Japan 1936-45

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The Rising Sun book

John Toland 1970 1st Edition, 954 pages

The author of the Last 100 Days, The decline and fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945

7 maps, bibl., index, two-toned brown linen with original dustjacket, maps on endpapers. “This Pulitzer Prize winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the authors 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.

Condition Ex library, dustjacket is covered with mylar cover tape is still on the covers, price clipped, , binding is intact with no loose pages, shows shelf wear along the edges,