Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing...
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Author: John W. Dower
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by Dower, John W.

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

¥5,111

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

¥5,111
Author: John W. Dower
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order.



Author: John W. Dower
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/17/2000
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.15w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780393320275

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 13.6
Point Value: 47
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 34818 / Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II


Award: Bancroft Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/02/2000 pg. 20
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 109

About the Author
Dower, John W.: - John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online "Visualizing Cultures" project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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