The Yamato Dynasty

In The Yamato Dynasty Sterling Seagrave who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times bestseller The Soong Dynasty and his wife and longtime collaborator Peggy present the controversial never-before-told history of the worlds longest-reigning dynastythe Japanese imperial familyfrom its nineteenth-century origins through today. In the first collective biography of both the men and women of the Yamato Dynasty the Seagraves take a controversial comprehensive look at a family history that crosses two world wars the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the American occupation of Japan and Japans subsequent phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the Second World War. The Yamato Dynastytells the story of the powerful men who have stood behind the screenthe shoguns and financiers controlling the throne from the shadowstaking readers behind the walls of privilege and tradition and revealing in uncompromising detail the true nature of a dynasty shrouded in myth and legend