Contents: 1. Memoirs of A-bomb survivors 2. Concerned citizens' voices 3. Supportive voices from overseas 4. Earlier memoirs of A-bomb experiences 5. Hiroshima today 6. Voices of the world 7. Messages from foreign leaders.
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…