Embracing Defeat

Name: Embracing Defeat
ISBN: 9780393046861

by John Dower

1999W. W. Norton & CompanyPulitzer

Following his National Book Critics Award winning War Without Mercy on the Pacific theater, Dower (history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) examines the immediate aftermath of World War II. He draws on a wide range of Japanese sources to illuminate how the shattering defeat and six years of US military occupation affected every level of society in ways no one anticipated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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military world-war-ii theater

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