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The Flying Tigers - Copyrighted 1963 First Printing From Laurel-Leaf Books 1979.But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor, 1962, ISBN 8-0.

Ships in the Sky: The Story of the Great Dirigibles (New York: Henry Holt London: F.

Books īooknotes interview with Toland on Captured by History, September 14, 1997, C-SPAN Toland died of pneumonia on January 4, 2004, at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut. He says in his 1997 autobiography that he earned little money from his prize-winner The Rising Sun but was set for life from the earnings of Adolf Hitler, for which he also did original research. While predominantly a writer of nonfiction, Toland also published two historical novels, Gods of War and Occupation. It won the Pulitzer because it was the first book in English to tell the history of the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view, rather than the prevailing American one. Based on original and extensive interviews with high-ranking Japanese officials who survived the war, the book chronicles the Empire of Japan from the military rebellion of February 1936 to the end of World War II. His most important work may be The Rising Sun (Random House, 1970), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1971. Dirigibles were the subject of his first full-length published book, Ships in the Sky (1957).

At one point he managed to get an article on dirigibles into LOOK magazine it proved extremely popular and led to his career as a historian. He claimed to have written six complete novels, 26 plays, and a hundred short stories before completing his first sale, a short story for which The American Magazine paid $165 in 1954. He recalled in 1961 that in his early years as a writer he had been "about as big a failure as a man can be". In the summers between college years, he traveled with hobos and wrote several plays with hobos as central characters, none of which were performed. His original goal was to become a playwright. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1932 and from Williams College in 1936 and attended the Yale School of Drama for a time. Toland was born in 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. 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 (J– January 4, 2004) was an American writer and historian.