BOOK HIROHITO: THE WAR YEARS (BOX48)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 HIROHITO: THE WAR YEARS                                                                                                             THE EXPLOSIVE, CONTROVERSIAL STORY OF HOW HIROHITO ORCHESTRATED JAPAN'S MILITARY AGGRESSION IN WORLD WAR TWO.

AUTHOR: PAUL MANNING

PUBLISHER: BANTAM BOOKS  NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT: 1986 BY PAUL MANNING

ISBN: 0-553-34705-0

      WITH DETAILED EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS, PREVIOUSLY UNDISCLOSED ARCHIVES, MINUTES, AND EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARIES OF THE EMPEROR'S CLOSEST AIDES, VETERAN REPORTER, AND WAR CORRESPONDENT, PAUL MANNING UNFOLDS A STUNNING TRUE STORY IN HIROHITO: THE WAR YEARS.  MANNING LEADS US ON A GRIPPING HISTORICAL JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF PREWAR JAPAN TO UNCOVER THE FORCE BEHIND JAPAN'S BLOODY CRUSADE TO CONQUER ALL.                                           WE SEE HIROHITO, AT MEETINGS DEEP WITH THE IMPERIAL PALACE, PREPARING AND LAUNCHING WAR AGAINST BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES AND AFTER THE WAR, THE SKILLFUL PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN THAT COVERED UP HIROHITO'S CRUCIAL ROLE IN MILITARY DECISION MAKING.                                                                          MANNING ALSO DOCUMENTS HIROHITO'S CLOSE RELATION WITH GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, AN ALLIANCE THAT WOULD ATTEMPT TO KEEP THE DISTURBING TRUTH FROM THE WORLD WHILE WORKING HARD FOR THE REHABILITATION OF A WAR-RAVAGED JAPAN.  HIROHITO: THE WAR YEARS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY, DRAMATIC LOOK AT THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH.