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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#350139-ZB3
Titel	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II
Auteur	Dower, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Allen Lane/The Penguin Press
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0713993723
ISBN13	9780713993721
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 ... (Lees verder)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.
Pagina's	676
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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