Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Paperback • 2000 • English

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

By John W. Dower

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About the book

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 vic...Show more

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ISBN

9780393320275

Publisher

W. W. Norton Company

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Format

Paperback

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