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War without mercy : race and power in the Pacific war / John W. Dower.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c1986.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780394751726
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DUCE D767.9.D69
Summary: 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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Books DUCE LIBRARY Humanities: Shelf D21. G484 – E178 .D7 Special Reserve DUCE D767.9.D69 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 000000176898

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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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