Embracing Defeat

Name: Embracing Defeat
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.3 (3 reviews)
Author: John W. Dower
ISBN: 9781433245695

Author: John W. Dower

Narrator: Edward Lewis

Unabridged: 21 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/22/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

Dower illuminates how shattering defeat, followed by years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate. The book vividly portrays the countless ways the Japanese met the challenge of starting over.

About John W. Dower

John W. Dower is professor emeritus of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests lie in modern Japanese history and U.S.-Japan relations. He is the author of several books, including Ways of Forgetting, War Without Mercy, Cultures of War, and Embracing Defeat, which received numerous honors (including the Pulitzer Prize).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anthony on October 19, 2023

The Great Rebuild. When the Emperor Hirohito gave his surrender speech on 15/08/1945, Japan was completely devastated and utterly defeated. The militarists had failed and the empire was left broken, with the victors standing over them, ready to impose their unlimited will. Two atomic bombs, nine year......more

Goodreads review by Murtaza on April 14, 2019

One of my major interests is the sociocultural and political evolution of Asian societies in modernity. The preeminent society among these — the one people that had seemingly "made it" in the 20th century — was of course Japan. The Japanese were an inspiration for reformers from Turkey to China. Eve......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on November 26, 2023

John W. Dower's Embracing Defeat offers a compelling account of postwar Japan, from the dropping of the atomic bombs to the end of American occupation seven years later. During that time, Dower writes, the Japanese were forced to confront the shocking end of empire and the horrendous destruction wro......more