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War without Mercy

Race and Power in the Pacific War

Race and Power in the Pacific War

By John Dower

By John Dower

By John Dower

By John Dower

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Feb 12, 1987 | ISBN 9780394751726

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    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
     
    AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST
     
    Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book . . . a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.”
     
    Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most . . . with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”

    About War without Mercy

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
     
    AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST
     
    Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book . . . a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.”
     
    Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most . . . with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”

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    About John Dower

    JOHN W. DOWER, born in 1938, is the Henry Luce Professor of International Cooperation and Global Stability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878–1954 and The Elements of… More about John Dower

    About John Dower

    JOHN W. DOWER, born in 1938, is the Henry Luce Professor of International Cooperation and Global Stability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878–1954 and The Elements of… More about John Dower

    Product Details

    Category: World War II Military History | 20th Century U.S. History | Asian World History

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Pantheon
    Feb 12, 1987 | 416 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780394751726

    Category: World War II Military History | 20th Century U.S. History | Asian World History

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Pantheon
    Mar 28, 2012 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9780307816146

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    Praise

    War Without Mercy has been widely praised in the press:
     
    “May well be the most important study of the Pacific War ever published.”
    —The New Republic
     
    “One of the handful of truly important books on the Pacific War . . . a cautionary tale for all peoples, now and in the future.”
    —Foreign Affairs
     
    “An exceptionally important book.”
    —Newsweek
     
    “Belongs in every general library . . . should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the trade wars that have mercifully replaced the killing fields in the Pacific.”
    —The Boston Globe

    Awards

    National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER 1986

    Table Of Contents

    Preface • xi
     
    PART I: ENEMIES
    1. Patterns of a Race War • 3
    2. “Know Your Enemy” • 15
    3. War Hates and War Crimes • 33
     
    PART II: THE WAR IN WESTERN EYES
    4. Apes and Others • 77
    5. Lesser Men and Supermen • 94
    6. Primitives, Children, Madmen • 118
    7. Yellow, Red, and Black Men • 147
        Illustrations • 181
     
    PART III: THE WAR IN JAPANESE EYES
    8. The Pure Self • 203
    9. The Demonic Other 234
    10. “Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus” • 262

    PART IV EPILOGUE
    11. From War to Peace • 293

    Notes • 319
    Bibliography • 367
    Picture Credits • 385
    Index • 387

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