![]() In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945," published in 1970, he talked with high-ranking Japanese military officers, low-ranking enlisted men, government officials, diplomats and housewives who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Toland based his narratives on hundreds of interviews with participants in the events about which he wrote and then attempted to describe the unfolding of history from as many sides as possible, as well as its impact on the famous and the ordinary. ![]() ![]() ![]() Toland's book "Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath."Īs a historical storyteller, Mr. "It simply doesn't wash," Washington Post chief diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. This theory - the subject of widespread speculation since shortly after the attack - was roundly denounced by several historians and journalists. Roosevelt and top government leaders knew about it in advance but did nothing to stop it because they wanted war with Japan. 7, 1941, arguing that President Franklin D. ![]() Toland also wrote a book about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. John Toland, 91, the author and historian who wrote a best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler and won a Pulitzer Prize for his description of the Japanese Empire in the 1930s and '40s and the events that led it into war against the United States, died of pneumonia Jan. ![]()
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