Maggie, Mark's twin sister, is a foreign news correspondent. Mark, the youngest son, enlists in the Marines. Will, the eldest son of Professor Frank McGlynn, is a naval officer who is taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than that, he makes the events of the Pacific theater feel vital and significant (which, of course, they are) in a very real and believable way, as we see the war through the eyes of the characters. Even though the reader knows what is coming next, Toland manages to make the events at Pearl Harbor seem intense and suspenseful. Hanging over their heads, however, is the growing war in Europe and the potential entrance of Japan into the war. It is a beautiful event, marking the union of two successful families from two very different cultures. The novel starts in 1936 in Tokyo at the wedding of Tadashi Toda and Floss McGlynn.
"Gods of War" is about the war in the Pacific, starting with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and ending with the dropping of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, told through the stories of two fictional families: the McGlynns (an American family) and the Todas (a Japanese family). Not that big was ever really better, mind you, but, as a bibliophile, there is nothing more satisfying than a heavy tome resting in one's lap. It's a shame, really, that big is no longer better. I happen to enjoy those kinds of novels, having read several of them, but I am well aware that these kinds of novels are no longer in style. John Toland's novel "Gods of War" is one of those epic historical novels that was immensely popular in the '70s and '80s, most of them written by the likes of James Michener, Leon Uris, or Herman Wouk. He says in his autobiography that he earned little money from his Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Rising Sun, but was set for life from the earnings of his biography of Hitler, for which he also did original research. While predominantly a non-fiction author, Toland also wrote two historical novels, Gods of War and Occupation. Most of these commanders committed suicide at the conclusion of the battle, but Toland was able to reconstruct their viewpoint from letters to their wives and from reports they sent to Tokyo. The stories of the battles for the stepping stones to Japan, the islands in the Pacific which had come under Japanese domination, are told from the perspective of the commander sitting in his cave rather than from that of the heroic forces engaged in the assault. The book won the Pulitzer because it was the first book in English to tell the history of the war in the Pacific from the Japanese point of view, rather than from an American perspective. Based on original and extensive interviews with high Japanese officials who survived the war, the book chronicles Imperial Japan from the military rebellion of February 1936 to the end of World War II. Perhaps his most important work, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971, is The Rising Sun. Ogg) has since come forth to publicly tell his story. Also, an anonymous source, known as "Seaman Z" (Robert D. Since the original publication, Toland added new evidence and rebutted early critics. The book was widely criticized at the time. One exception to his general approach is his Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath about the Pearl Harbor attack and the investigations of it, in which he wrote about evidence that President Franklin Roosevelt knew in advance of plans to attack the naval base but remained silent. At one point he managed to publish an article on dirigibles in Look magazine it proved extremely popular and led to his career as a historian. In the summers between his college years, he travelled with hobos and wrote several plays with hobos as central characters, none of which achieved the stage. This method may have stemmed from his original goal of becoming a playwright. Toland tried to write history as a straightforward narrative, with minimal analysis or judgment. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler. John Willard Toland (Jin La Crosse, Wisconsin - Januin Danbury, Connecticut) was an American author and historian. The following is a list of war deities.Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. A war deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with war, combat or bloodshed.
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