Born June 29, 1912 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin [Died] January 4, 2004. Danbury, Connecticut. American historian. Several of his World War II history books became bestsellers. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he became a freelance journalist. His first non-fiction work was "Ships in the Sky" (1957), which was about airships. His first non-fiction work, "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945" (1970), written from the Japanese perspective, won the Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category. His "Adolf Hitler" (1976) is said to be the most comprehensive biography of Hitler. In "Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath" (1982), he argues that President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about the plans to attack Pearl Harbor in advance but did not prevent them in order to use them as a pretext for America to enter the war. In 1997 he published a memoir, "Captured by History." Toland |
[生]1912.6.29. ウィスコンシン,ラクロス [没]2004.1.4. コネチカット,ダンベリー アメリカ合衆国の歴史研究家。第2次世界大戦について記した歴史書数冊がベストセラーになった。第2次世界大戦中に陸軍航空隊に勤務したのち,フリーランスのジャーナリストとなる。最初のノンフィクションは,飛行船をテーマにした "Ships in the Sky"(1957)だった。日本の視点から書いた『大日本帝国の興亡』The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945(1970)はピュリッツァー賞(一般ノンフィクション部門)を受賞。『アドルフ・ヒトラー』Adolf Hitler(1976)は,ヒトラーの伝記としてはきわめて包括的なものといわれている。『真珠湾攻撃』Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath(1982)では,フランクリン・D.ルーズベルト大統領は事前に真珠湾攻撃計画を知っていたが,アメリカ参戦の口実にするためにこれを阻止しなかったと主張。1997年には回顧録 "Captured by History"を発表している。 トーランド
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