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29 reviews
John Toland

Bison Books, 1999

Message from Bastogne: Nuts!
My first contact with Mr. Toland's writings was "Gods of War" and found it a great WWII novel. At that time I wasn't aware Mr. Toland was a professional historian on war themes. Researching in Amazon, for bibliography on the Bulge subject, I was gratefully surprised to find another edition of this non-fiction book. Mr. Toland collects hundreds of testimonies from the actors of this war drama, ...

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War)

31 reviews
John Toland

Modern Library, 2003

Excellent
Many people have given excellent reviews, so I will not repeat myself here. It's not a book written from a victor's perspective, thus some might have found that apologetic. Though I think the book was softer in Japanese side, I don't think it's seriously biased. Many books about second world war were written with great emotions, hatred ... the rape of Nanking just popped up in head. So, I ...

BATTLE : THE STORY OF THE BULGE

1 review
John TolAND

Random House, 1959

Entrenched around Bastogne.
My first contact with Mr. Toland's writings was "Gods of War" and found it a great WWII novel. At that time I wasn't aware Mr. Toland was a professional historian on war themes. Researching in Amazon, for bibliography on the Bulge subject, I was gratefully surprised to find another edition of this non-fiction book. Mr. Toland collects hundreds of testimonies from the actors of this war drama, ...

The Great Dirigibles

6 reviews
John Toland

Dover Publications, 1972

A well researched work explaining airship disasters
This is the first book I have ever come across that painstakingly details the demise of airships. Toland has recreated conversations and personal details from countless sources and testimony. Each accident and triumph is covered in detail. I loved this book. It is a must-read for any airship enthusiast.

No Man's Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War (World War I)

2 reviews
John Toland

Bison Books, 2002

Engrossing Narrative of a Tragic Conflict
This gripping account of the last year of the First World War is well worth reading. Author John Toland focuses on the Western Front and describes tactics, strategies, politics, economics and personalities. Readers see how in March of 1918 a weary but still-powerful German army, fortified with fresh divisions from Russia, broke through the lines of the exhausted French and British. The Germans ...

But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor.

2 reviews
John. Toland

Random House, 1961

This Book can hold its own against any contemporary book on the subject!
It is to John Toland's tremendous credit that so much information about the Second World War has been collected for countless generations. But Not In Shame represents Toland's incalculable hours of research, traveling throughout the former Pacific Theater not long after so many bitter battles had ended. Unlike many early WWII scholars, Toland's writing style is surprisingly contemporary, ...

Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

67 reviews
John Toland

Anchor, 1991

Adolf Hitler, a superlative popular history
Adolf Hitler: The definitive biography. John Toland, 1976. This biography forms a very interesting historical narrative. It presents a lively account of the smoldering resentment and visceral hatred of Jews and Bolsheviks that consumed the mind of the subject individual. Based on archival records, unpublished diaries, notes, memoirs and recorded interviews with over 250 former participants, ...

In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953

13 reviews
John Toland

William Morrow & Company, 1991

Heroes of Korea
Toland's reputation as a first class historian is kept alive with this epic about the forgotten war. You will never forget some of the heroes he tells us about and it will encourage you to learn more about them and Korea.

Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It

7 reviews
Manny Lawton

Algonquin Books, 2004

Japanese Atrocities at Their Worst
This is an amazing report of an American soldier held captive by the Japaese in the Phippines and the island of Japan itself for three and one-half years after his capture in World War II. How he could remember the details of brutal beatings, starvation and resulting illnesses is almost beyond belief. His experiences with fellow prisoners runs the gamut from the highest heroism to utter ...

The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe (Modern ...

11 reviews
John Toland

Modern Library, 2003

Excellent Book by Excellent Writer
The Last 100 Days is a monumental historical work. In it the author pieces together the story of the fall of the Third Reich at the end of the Second World War in Europe. Although the book is generally described as a work of "popular history" it is more than that. It is in fact a work of history that has itself now become a part of the history of World War II. (Too many authors to count ...

Hitler: The Pictorial Documentary of His Life

3 reviews
John Toland

Ballantine Books, 1980

Packed with Pictures
This book was meant as a supplement to John Toland's biography of Hitler. It contains 465 photographs, 11 of them in full color. It is hard to describe the pictures to you. Some are candid shots and others are exquisitely staged. They pretty much line up in chronological order and they also show the people that were on Hitler's periphery. Photograph 155 is the next day Hindenburg died. ...

Captured by History: One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century

8 reviews
John Toland

St Martins Pr, 1997

Lest We Forget
This book was first published in 1997 by author John Toland who wrote it at age 84 as his autobiography. I located a copy recently and began reading a very interesting almost year by year description of this man's controversial and never dull life. The first one hundred pages feature a lengthy portrait of a young man growing up in the twenties and thirties with little money, a thirst for ...

John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious: Text, Associated Works, and Critical Essays

3 reviews
John Toland

Lilliput Press, 1997

A concise way to show the Irish enlightement
The book focuses on the famous Toland work "Christianity Not Mysterious". Toland tried, in his opinion, to clean the Christianity of all strange elements that destroy his original purpose. Toland thank that the correct way to realize his purpose was the strictly use of reason. But Toland, at the same time, reflects a strong rationalism, if we use a common expression in philosophy of ...

Infamy: pearl harbor and its aftermath

13 reviews
John Toland

Berkley, 1986

Toland makes his case...but it's still just an indictment and not a conviction
Due to his impressive body of work including "The Last Hundred Days" and "Adolph Hitler," John Toland will always demarcate the gold standard in history writing. Thorough going in his research, dogged in pursuing surviving sources for their versions of meetings and moments and recollections, Toland's work shows what really good history writing can be. In this way, it should probably be ...

Flying Tigers

3 reviews
John Toland

Dell Pub Co, 1984

A great little hardback
'The Flying Tigers' is one of the first history books I have ever had and really enjoyed. The idea of a group of volunteers fighting the Japanese fighters and bombers with their P-40s was amazing to me. Not many history classes in high school or even college touched on the subject. If you enjoyed this book, I would also read 'Red Tails Black Wings' by John B. Holway. Did you know when the Red ...

The Dillinger Days

8 reviews
John Toland

Da Capo Press, 1995

Revisiting a Standard Text
When first published in 1963, Toland's The Dillinger Days seemed to be the definitive work on the public enemy era, as both a biography of John Dillinger and as a sweeping chronicle of the whole Midwest Depression crime wave, also including "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Baby Face" Nelson, the Barker-Karpis gang, "Machine Gun" Kelly and Clyde Barrow. Indeed, Toland may even be credited with launching a ...

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