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Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It
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 ...
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Battle: The Story of the Bulge
John Toland
Bison Books, 1999
Highly Recommended
This is a fantastic treatment of the Battle of the Bulge originally researched and written in the late 1950's when many of the principals and participants were still around with relatively fresh memories. Toland provides a very comprehensive chronological overview of ...
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The Great Dirigibles
John Toland
Dover Publications, 1972
Reads like a novel
Reads like a novel, with enough detail to inform and intrigue and enough good writing to interest. No axes to grind, no unedited overwriting. Just history the way its supposed to be. It left me enjoying everything I read and wishing for just a little bit more: ...
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No Man's Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War (World War I)
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 ...
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Infamy
John Toland
Anchor, 1992
Worth a read
Toland is an excellent historian. He's put together a lot of different lines of evidence to insinuate that the United States was indeed aware of the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened. That's the gist of this book. Does he prove it? No. There is no absolute ...
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The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe (Modern ...
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. ...
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War)
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.
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Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography
John Toland
Anchor, 1991
A must read!!
I really enjoyed this biography. The author researched his subject matter thoroughly and was able to write without giving the reader pre-conceptions. I was absolutely fascinated, this book separates fact from myth, gives an incredibily intimate look at Hilter and his ...
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The Dillinger Days
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 ...
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BATTLE : THE STORY OF THE BULGE
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 ...
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Gods of War
John Toland
Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1986
gods of war
Informative-I WAS IN THIS WAR..very factual in giving me the affect and reactions of the people of Japan that I DID NOT KNOW. . Thank you Mr.Toland
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Flying Tigers
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 ...
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The Last 100 Days
John Toland
Bantam Books, 2000
Or how the Russians got their revenge
The last 100 days of the Nazi regime have long remained clouded by the fact that it was the Soviet armies that reached Berlin first and afterwards controlled the information surrounding the end of it all. Until things had settled down, and let's not forget that they ...
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In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953
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.
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The Last 100 Days (Final Days of WWII in Europe)
John Toland
Random House, 1965
The best account of the fall of Nazi Germany
I have read this book quite a number of times, having it in my possession all these years. I cannot conceive of a better account of the fall of Nazi Germany than this book.
John Toland writes with a verve and immediacy that grips the reader. The viewpoint is varied, ...
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