War without Mercy
Title | War without Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | John Dower |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2012-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307816141 |
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Embracing Defeat
Title | Embracing Defeat PDF eBook |
Author | John W Dower |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 692 |
Release | 2000-07-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393320275 |
This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Title | Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Dower |
Publisher | New Press, The |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1595589376 |
Historian John W. Dower’s celebrated investigations into modern Japanese history, World War II, and U.S.–Japanese relations have earned him critical accolades and numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize. Now Dower returns to the major themes of his groundbreaking work, examining American and Japanese perceptions of key moments in their shared history. Both provocative and probing, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering delves into a range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese wartime propaganda, the ways in which the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered in Japan, and the story of how the postwar study of Japan in the United States and the West was influenced by Cold War politics. Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering offers urgent insights by one of our greatest interpreters of the past into how citizens of democracy should deal with their history and, as Dower writes, “the need to constantly ask what is not being asked.”
Cultures of War
Title | Cultures of War PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Dower |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 645 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Hiroshima-shi (Japan) |
ISBN | 0393340686 |
WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and analyzed the brutality that attended World War II in the Pacific, as seen from both the Japanese and the American sides. Embracing Defeat (1999), winner of numerous honors including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, dealt with Japan's struggle to start over in a shattered land in the immediate aftermath of the Pacific War, when the defeated country was occupied by the U.S.-led Allied powers. Turning to an even larger canvas, Dower now examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror.
The Pacific War, 1931-1945
Title | The Pacific War, 1931-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Saburo Ienaga |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2010-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307756092 |
A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war.
Without Mercy
Title | Without Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Higgins |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2005-08-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101205563 |
As Detective Superintendent Hannah Bernstein of Special Branch lies recuperating in the hospital, an enigmatic shadow from the past, burning with hatred, steals into her room and finishes the job. Consumed by grief and rage, Dillon, Blake Johnson, and all who loved Hannah swear vengeance, no matter where it takes them. But they have no idea of the searing journey upon which they are about to embark—or of the bloody war into which they are about to charge. Filled with dark suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, Without Mercy once again proves that Jack Higgins is the unchallenged master of international intrigue.
War Without Mercy
Title | War Without Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Dower |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 1986-01 |
Genre | National characteristics, Japanese |
ISBN | 9780571146055 |