Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393046861)

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. 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 War Without Mercy.

Author: John W. Dower
ISBN-10: 0393046869
ISBN-13: 9780393046861
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 03/17/1999
Pages: 678
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 13.6
Point Value: 47
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 34818 / Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: Kiriyama Prize - Nominee
Award: Lukas Prize Project - Winner
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/1999 pg. 193
Publishers Weekly 02/22/1999 pg. 75
Booklist 03/01/1999 pg. 1148
Library Journal 04/01/1999 pg. 113
New York Times 07/04/1999 pg. 16
LJ Best Books of Year 01/01/2000 pg. 49
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 88
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2000 pg. 79
Library Journal 01/01/2000