Cultures of War explores how nations justify, experience, and remember war through four pivotal events: the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Hiroshima, the September 11 attacks, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. John W. Dower examines recurring patterns in U.S. strategic thinking, political rhetoric, and cultural responses to conflict. Through comparative historical analysis, Dower reveals h…
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 Sec…