num_pages: 676
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. 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 .
language: English
title: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
titlecomplete: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
genres: Japanese History, Historical, War, Asia, Politics, Japan, Nonfiction, Japanese Literature, History, World War II
ratings_count: 4391
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Mark Lynton History Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: John K. Fairbank Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton