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N A T I 0 N A L BESTSELLE R "[It] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war." —Chicago Sun-Times WINNER of the THE PULITZER PRIZE The Decline of the 988 Hi I 8m HI 8 . Japanese Empire, 1936-194 r Wimm • . . ■ wmmi ' Nr AUT AYS i / Boston Public Library Boston, MA 02116 viBidiJ oildu^ noteob arr^QAM. Ships in the Sky Battle: The Story of the Bulge But Not in Shame The Dillinger Days The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe Adolf Hitler Hitler: The Pictorial Documentary of His Life No Mans Land: 1918, the Last Year of the Great War Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath Gods of War (novel) Occupation (novel) In Mortal Combat Captured by History: One Mans Vision of Our Tumultuous Century THE RISING SUN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/risingsundecline00john_1 John Toland THE RISING SUN The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 THE MODERN LIBRARY NEW YORK 2003 Modern Library Paperback Edition Copyright © 1970 and copyright renewed 1998 by John Toland All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Modern Library and the Torchbearer Design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. This work was originally published in hardcover in 1970 by Random House, Inc. ISBN 0-8129-6858-1 Modern Library website address: www.modernlibrary.com Printed in the United States of America 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 Contents Foreword xiii Part One—The Roots of War 1. Gekokujo 3 2. To the Marco Polo Bridge 34 3. “Then the War Will Be a Desperate One” 54 Part Two—The Lowering Clouds 4. “Go Back to Blank Paper” 89 5. The Fatal Note 121 6. Operation Z 149 7. “This War May Come Quicker Than Anyone Dreams” 173 Part Three—Banzai! 8. “I Shall Never Look Back” 211 9. “The Formidable Years That Lie Before Us” 237 10. “For a Wasted Hope and Sure Defeat” 258 11. “To Show Them Mercy Is to Prolong the War” 285 12. “But Not in Shame” 302 13. The Tide Turns 321 Part Four—Isle of Death 14. Operation Shoestring 345 15. Green Hell 364 16. “I Deserve Ten Thousand Deaths” 389 17. The End 412 Part Five—The Gathering Forces 18. Of Mice and Men 435 19. To the Marianas 467 20. “Seven Lives to Repay Our Country!” 498 Vlll CONTENTS Part Six—The Decisive Battle 21. “Let No Heart Be Faint” 523 22. The Battle oe Leyte Gulf 546 23. The Battle of Breakneck Ridge 573 24. Debacle 594 Part Seven—Beyond the Bitter End 25. “Our Golden Opportunity” 611 26. “Like Hell with the Fire Out” 639 27. The Flowers of Edo 670 28. The Last Sortie 682 29. The Iron Typhoon 704 30. The Stragglers 727 PART EIGHT—“One Hundred Million Die Together1'1 31. In Quest of Peace 741 32. “That Was Not Any Decision That You Had To Worry About” 760 33. Hiroshima 779 34. ... and Nagasaki 793 35. “To Bear the Unbearable” 810 36. The Palace Revolt 829 37. The Voice of the Crane 851 Epilogue 871 Acknowledgments 879 Sources 883 Notes 905 Index 931 Maps The War in the Pacific xvi The Japanese Conquest of Luzon 261 The Slot/Guadalcanal 369 Saipan 491 The Battle of Leyte Gulf 549 The Battle for Leyte 579 I wo J ima 645 Okinawa 707
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