Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II

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  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2000)
  • National Book Award for Non-Fiction (1999)
  • Bancroft Prize (2000)
  • Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award (2000)
  • Mark Lynton History Prize (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1999)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1999)
  • Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (1999)
  • John K. Fairbank Prize (1999)
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Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II

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ISBN: 9780393320275
Authors: John W. Dower
Date of Publication: 2000-06-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Politics
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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 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.
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  • Bancroft Prize (2000)
  • Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award (2000)
  • Mark Lynton History Prize (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1999)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1999)
  • Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (1999)
  • John K. Fairbank Prize (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.