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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIDrawing 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
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. John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/1999
ISBN: 9780393046861
Pages: 676
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.90d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: Kiriyama Prize - Nominee
Award: Lukas Prize Project - Winner
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/1999 pg. 193
Publishers Weekly 02/22/1999 pg. 75
Booklist 03/01/1999 pg. 1148
Library Journal 04/01/1999 pg. 113
New York Times 07/04/1999 pg. 16
LJ Best Books of Year 01/01/2000 pg. 49
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 88
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2000 pg. 79
Library Journal 01/01/2000
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 34818 / Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Reading Level: 13.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 47
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