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  • In Mortal Combat

    Korea, 1950–1953

    by John Toland ...
    A history of the Korean War with soldier's-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy.Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hypatia: The History of a Most Beautiful, Most Vertuous, Most Learned, and Every Way Accomplish'd Lady Who was Torn to Pieces by the Clergy of Alexandria

    by John Toland ...
    A general Character of the Lady; the Contrivers and Executioners of the Barbarities which she suffered; and the Authorities from whence this Story is extracted. I am going to give a short Account, but as full as antient Books afford us Materials, of the Life and Death of Hypatia; who will ever continue the Glory of her own Sex, and the Disgrace of ours: For the Women have no less Reason to value ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rising Sun

    The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

    by John Toland ...
    Series series Modern Library War
    “[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThis 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, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Adolf Hitler

    The Definitive Biography

    by John Toland ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Dillinger Days

    by John Toland ...
    **A deeply researched account of Depression-era criminals who roamed the Midwest by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author.John Dillinger and his compatriots' crime spree lasted a little over a year in the 1930s and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Dillinger's bank robberies—and his ability to elude both a half-dozen state police forces and the FBI—kept Americans riveted ... Read more

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  • The Last 100 Days

    The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe

    by John Toland ...
    Series series Modern Library War
    A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people—from Hitler’s personal chauffeur to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Infamy

    Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

    by John Toland ...
    Bestselling author and historian John Toland’s expertise and skill as a narrator were awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for his sweeping Rising Sun. In Infamy, Toland extends and corrects his account of the events leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, addressing persistent questions: Could FDR have engineered a conspiracy to get the US into the War? Did high-level military and civilian ... Read more

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  • No Man's Land

    by John Toland ...
    1918: The end of the war to end all wars. The end of an era for victors and vanquished alike.When Germany launched the Ludendorf Offensives—the most massive military bombardment of World War I—they seemed certain to win. But when American troops began arriving in droves, the Allies' certain defeat became a decisive victory.No Man's Land takes us into the trenches, behind enemy lines, into military ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Flying Tigers

    by John Toland ...
    During World War II, a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring, and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers.The Tigers, who had been recruited from the Army, Navy, and Marines, first saw action as a volunteer group fighting on the side of the Chiang Kia-shek's China against Japan. Trained in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Hypatia

    Enriched edition. The history of a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish'd lady

    by John Toland, Ethan Carlisle ...
    In his historical novel "Hypatia," John Toland artfully brings to life the tumultuous era of late antiquity, intertwining the tale of the brilliant philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria with the sociopolitical upheaval of her time. Toland employs a vivid narrative style that deftly blends rich character development with meticulous attention to historical detail, painting a portrait ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battle

    The Story of the Bulge

    by John Toland ...
    "The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes and ears of soldiers and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • But Not in Shame

    The Six Months After Pearl Harbor

    by John Toland ...
    December 7, 1941 - at exactly 7:55AM on a seemingly peaceful Sunday morning, the United States was plunged into the greatest war in history!What were the events which determined the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? What were the last few days on Wake Island like? What really occurred on the infamous Bataan Death March and why did it happen? How did MacArthur make his dramatic escape from Corregidor? And ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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