Sometimes a man has to jump
Christopher Harding: General Tōjō’s Downfall, 5 November 2026
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial Second World War General
by Peter Mauch.
Harvard, 492 pp., £27.95, March,978 0 674 49519 7 Show More
by Peter Mauch.
Harvard, 492 pp., £27.95, March,
“... Stalin, capable of imposing his will and vision on the vast machinery of a modern nation-state. As Peter Mauch reveals in his new biography, Tōjō was a product of that machinery. He was what you get when a constitution distributes power and responsibility across a range of competing interests: army, navy, civilian cabinet, diplomats, talking-shop ... ”
