This technique served him well in perhaps the most popular of his histories, ''Adolf Hitler'' (Doubleday, 1976), an anecdotal portrait that several reviewers called the most comprehensive biography of Hitler up until that time. For ''Rising Sun'' his subjects ranged from Japanese generals and admirals to housewives who had survived the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Toland typically sought to do as many interviews as possible, sometimes hundreds. Reviewing ''The Rising Sun'' (Random House) for The New York Times, Walter Clemons called it a ''big, absorbing and finally very moving history of the Pacific war, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint.'' The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter Tamiko Toland.
No previous owner or remainder marks.John Toland, a best-selling historian whose book ''The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945'' won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, died on Sunday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. Slight shadow offset to signature page caused by Krochs & Brentano's "1st Edition Circle" bookmark having once been laid in. SIGNED & FINE Condition! Tight, bright, clean copy in bright dust jacket (unclipped) with a few clean & hard-to-see nicks.
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. John Willard Toland (1912 - January 4, 2004) was an American writer and historian. + Krochs & Brentano's "1st Edition Circle" bookmark. SIGNED by the Author on a publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, archival polyester-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) lllustrated with 12 pages of glossy B&W photos, Hitler's family tree, table of ranks, plus in-text maps 2 map endpapers: front = Germany Between Wars & rear = Europe Under Hitler, xx, + 1035 pages.
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