Showing Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

Paperback. Pub date: 2000 07 Pages: 680 Publisher: WW Norton & Co.. Drawing on a Vast range of Japanese third-party sources and illustrated with dozens of Astonishing Documentary photographs. Emacing 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. Amose 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. Emacing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very fir...