In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting and unbiased narrative history. In his Foreword, Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun, it is “that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.”
| Foreword | ||
| Pt. 1 | The Roots of War | |
| 1 | Gekokujo | 3 |
| 2 | To the Marco Polo Bridge | 34 |
| 3 | "Then the War Will Be a Desperate One" | 54 |
| Pt. 2 | The Lowering Clouds | |
| 4 | "Go Back to Blank Paper" | 89 |
| 5 | The Fatal Note | 121 |
| 6 | Operation Z | 149 |
| 7 | "This War May Come Quicker Than Anyone Dreams" | 173 |
| Pt. 3 | Banzai! | |
| 8 | "I Shall Never Look Back" | 211 |
| 9 | "The Formidable Years That Lie Before Us" | 237 |
| 10 | "For a Wasted Hope and Sure Defeat" | 258 |
| 11 | "To Show Them Mercy Is to Prolong the War" | 285 |
| 12 | "But Not in Shame" | 302 |
| 13 | The Tide Turns | 321 |
| Pt. 4 | Isle of Death | |
| 14 | Operation Shoestring | 345 |
| 15 | Green Hell | 364 |
| 16 | "I Deserve Ten Thousand Deaths" | 389 |
| 17 | The End | 412 |
| Pt. 5 | The Gathering Forces | |
| 18 | Of Mice and Men | 435 |
| 19 | To the Marianas | 467 |
| 20 | "Seven Lives to Repay Our Country!" | 498 |
| Pt. 6 | The Decisive Battle | |
| 21 | "Let No Heart Be Faint" | 523 |
| 22 | The Battle of Leyte Gulf | 546 |
| 23 | The Battle of Breakneck Ridge | 573 |
| 24 | Debacle | 594 |
| Pt. 7 | Beyond the Bitter End | |
| 25 | "Our Golden Opportunity" | 611 |
| 26 | "Like Hell with the Fire Out" | 639 |
| 27 | The Flowers of Edo | 670 |
| 28 | The Last Sortie | 682 |
| 29 | The Iron Typhoon | 704 |
| 30 | The Stragglers | 727 |
| Pt 8 | "One Hundred Million Die Together" | |
| 31 | In Quest of Peace | 741 |
| 32 | "That Was Not Any Decision That You Had To Worry About" | 760 |
| 33 | Hiroshima | 779 |
| 34 | ... and Nagasaki | 793 |
| 35 | "To Bear the Unbearable" | 810 |
| 36 | The Palace Revolt | 829 |
| 37 | The Voice of the Crane | 851 |
| Epilogue | 871 | |
| Acknowledgments | 879 | |
| Sources | 883 | |
| Notes | 905 | |
| Index | 931 | |
| Map: The War in the Pacific | ||
| Map: The Japanese Conquest of Luzon | 261 | |
| Map: The Slot/Guadalcanal | 369 | |
| Map: Saipan | 491 | |
| Map: The Battle of Leyte Gulf | 549 | |
| Map: The Battle for Leyte | 579 | |
| Map: Iwo Jima | 645 | |
| Map: Okinawa | 707 |
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In weaving together the ...