The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945

John Willard Toland (1912–2004) was an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 (1970) and the biography Adolf Hitler (1976), which drew on extensive interviews with eyewitnesses.John Toland (historian) Wikipedia), Pulitzer.org