Awards
Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
Synopses & Reviews
Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, 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, 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 .
Review
"Richly detailed and provocative....For anyone who knows modern Japan, it is an endlessly fascinating explanation of why things work as they do....A marvelous piece of reporting and analysis." T.R. Reid, Washington Post
Review
"With Embracing Defeat, [Dover] confirms his place as this county's leading chronicler of the Pacific war." Janice P. Nimura, Chicago Tribune
Synopsis
The definitive history of the transformation of Japanese society under American occupation.
Synopsis
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, is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
About the Author
John W. Dover is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the award-winning War Without Mercy, "the most important study of the Pacific War ever published." [The New Republic]