ebooks Becoming Jane Jacobs by Peter L. Laurence in History

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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 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. In his Foreword; Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun; it is “that there are no simple lessons in history; that it is human nature that repeats itself; not history.”