num_pages: 399
description: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that 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 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.”
language: English
title: War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
titlecomplete: War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
genres: Asia, Japanese History, Race, American History, Japan, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History, World War II
ratings_count: 1710
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Pantheon