War without Mercy Pacific War

Name: War without Mercy Pacific War
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ISBN: 9780394751726

ISBN-10: 0394751728

ISBN-13: 9780394751726

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Dower

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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 even-handed 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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/12/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

John Dower is professor of Japanese history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.



Preface



Enemies



Patterns of a Race War



"Know Your Enemy"



War Hates and War Crimes



The War in Western Eyes



Apes and Others



Lesser Men and Supermen



Primitives, Children, Madmen



Yellow, Red, and Black Men


Illustrations



The War in Japanese Eyes



The Pure Self



The Demonic Other



"Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus"



Epilogue



From War to Peace


Notes


Bibliography


Picture Credits


Index