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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
War Without Mercy 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...
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Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the notable exception of the United States, which exited the strife unmatched...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting-and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of essays, John W. Dower-one of our leading historians of postwar Japan and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Embracing Defeat-explores the uses and abuses to which this history has been subjected and, with deliberation...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton/New Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. Here he 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 list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging:...
6) Wearing propaganda: textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
Publisher
Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture by Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English