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082 0 _a952.04 DOW
100 1 _aDower, John W.
245 1 0 _aEmbracing defeat
_b: Japan in the wake of World War II
_c/ John W. Dower
260 _aNew York
_b: W. W. Norton and Company
_c, c1999.
300 _a676 p.
_b: ill., map
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [565]-650) and index.
520 _aFollowing his National Book Critics Award winning War Without Mercy on the Pacific theater, Dower (history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) examines the immediate aftermath of World War II. He draws on a wide range of Japanese sources to illuminate how the shattering defeat and six years of US military occupation affected every level of society in ways no one anticipated.
650 _aJapan
_x-History
_y-1945-
942 _cMO
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