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050 00 $aD15.T59$bA3 1997
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100 1 $aToland, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013866
245 10 $aCaptured by history :$bone man's vision of our tumultuous century /$cJohn Toland.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1997.
300 $axiv, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aCaptured by History is an autobiography like none other in recent years, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to him.
520 8 $aFrom disgraced Japanese generals to the German doctor who nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler, Toland's sources are remarkable for what they reveal about their subjects. It was Toland's ability to listen, more than anything else, that persuaded those he interviewed to divulge secrets and stories they would tell no one else.
520 8 $aToland's unorthodox approach to history came from his early desire to be a playwright. Toland found that he saw history as a play, with narrative structure and drama, not as a dry series of dates and names.
520 8 $aThe result was a series of landmark works such as Infamy; The Rising Sun, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1970 and reflected his ability, with the help of his Japanese wife, to open doors normally closed to Westerners in Japan; In Mortal Combat; The Last 100 Days; and his best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler.
520 8 $aWritten by one of our last witnesses to the terrible and deracinating conflicts that split the world asunder at mid-century, Captured by History is an astonishing personal story of a hugely inquisitive man who became a historian not by accident or design, but by fate; a man who succeeded in chronicling the most tumultuous events of our century.
600 10 $aToland, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013866
650 0 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105657
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