Hardcover Book Set, The Rising Sun Vol 1 & 2, Military and Political History, Nonfiction, Literature, WWII

Hardcover Book Set, The Rising Sun Vol 1 & 2, Military and Political History, Nonfiction, Literature, WWII

A hardcover book set entitled The Rising Sun The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-45 Volumes 1 & 2. The book covers have Japanese characters with title in gold on the spine.

This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II that 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 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.

John Willard Toland (1912 – 2004) was an American writer and historian. He is best known for a biography of Adolf Hitler and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II-era Japan, The Rising Sun.

Size:
8½ x 5¾ inches
Two Volumes
No Dust Jacket
Published by Random House -- 1970

Volume One is in good condition with no staining or writing on the pages. The book's cover boards are slightly bent. It does have a split binding in the back, but all pages are intact.
Volume Two is in very good condition with no staining or writing on the pages. There is some bending on the cover boards. Its binding is tight with no splits.
Both books do show their age and that they have been loved and read many times. Our price reflects this.

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