Historian John Toland Dies; Won Pulitzer for 'Rising Sun'

The Washington Post | January 6, 2004| | Copyright

John Toland, 91, the author and historian who wrote a best- selling biography of Adolf Hitler and won a Pulitzer Prize for his description of the Japanese Empire in the 1930s and '40s and the events that led it into war against the United States, died of pneumonia Jan. 4 at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.

Mr. Toland also wrote a book about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, arguing that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and top government leaders knew about it in advance but did nothing to stop it because they wanted war with Japan. This theory -- the subject of widespread ...

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