John W Dower: 4 books
by John W. Dower
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2000
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Drawing on a vast...
by John W. Dower
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Nonfiction: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.
Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the...
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Japan in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan” from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize (Kirkus Reviews).
Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship...
The Violent American Century
War and Terror Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
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...