Download or read book Tojo and the Coming of the War written by Robert Joseph Charles Butow and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides an account of events in Japanese public affairs leading up to and beyond the war in the Pacific. The career of Hideki Tojo, premier of Japan at the time of Pearl Harbor, provides the background against which to reveal the relentless advance by the military toward full control of Japan and the hardening of the attitudes and fears of the people which made war with the Western nations possible."--Foreword.