Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq

by John W. Dower

Book Overview

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and analyzed the brutality that attended World War II in the Pacific, as seen from both the Japanese and the American sides. Embracing Defeat (1999), winner of numerous honors including the Pulitzer Prize and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393061507
• ISBN13: 9780393061505
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.6"