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John Willard Toland

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Jon Willard Torando

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1912-06-29 （La Crosse, Wisconsin）
Died
2004-01-04 （Danbury, Connecticut） age 91
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
La Crosse, Wisconsin → Danbury, Connecticut

Career

Occupations
historian, writer
Active Years
1957-2004

Education

Williams College
Period: 1932-1936
Year of Graduation: 1936
Country: United States
Graduated
Yale School of Drama
Drama
Country: United States
Attended
Phillips Exeter Academy
Year of Graduation: 1932
Country: United States
Graduated

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1971
Work: The Rising Sun
Category: General Nonfiction
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Rising Sun

1970 History

History of the Empire of Japan from 1936 to 1945 from the Japanese perspective.

Pacific WarEmpire of Japan

Adolf Hitler

1976 Biography

Definitive biography of Adolf Hitler.

NazismWorld War II

Bibliography

  • Ships in the Sky
  • Battle: The Story of the Bulge
  • But Not in Shame
  • The Dillinger Days
  • The Flying Tigers
  • The Last 100 Days
  • The Rising Sun
  • The Great Dirigibles
  • Adolf Hitler
  • No Man's Land: 1918
  • Infamy: Pearl Harbor And Its Aftermath
  • In Mortal Combat: Korea 1950–1953
  • Captured by History
  • Gods of War
  • Occupation

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Based on extensive interviewsNarrative history
Recurring Motifs
War historyBiographies

Health

  • Pneumonia
    晩年
    Cause of death

Legacy

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian known for works on World War II and Nazis.

Archives

  • National Archives (John Toland Papers)

Trivia

  • Traveled with hobos and wrote plays about them
  • Originally aspired to be a playwright