John Toland Interview with Don Swaim
This is a great interview with John Toland, author of Adolf Hitler and Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1938-1945, the two books that I've been plowing through. After reading Toland's biography of Dillinger, I thought I was up for the Pulitzer prize winning work. Instead, it turns out my brain is full of European WWII & I've got to make room for the Asian WWII stories.
Toland is very unassuming in this interview, but obviously a stickler for detail. It's fun to listen to him (if you've read & enjoyed his books!)
The quote I like best from him so far is "History doesn't repeat itself, human nature repeats itself."
That pretty much sums it up!
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