Cultures Of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 911 / Iraq,Used

Finalist For The National Book Award In Nonfictionfinalist For The Los Angeles Times Book Prize'A Thoughtprovokingbook About The Way Events Echoand Misechodown The Corridors Of History.' Financial Timesover Recent Decades, John W. Dower, One Of Americas Preeminent Historians, Has Addressed The Roots And Consequences Of War From Multiple Perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award, He Described And Analyzed The Brutality That Attended World War Ii In The Pacific, As Seen From Both The Japanese And The American Sides. Embracing Defeat (1999), Winner Of Numerous Honors Including The Pulitzer Prize And The National Book Award, Dealt With Japans Struggle To Start Over In A Shattered Land In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Pacific War, When The Defeated Country Was Occupied By The U.S.Led Allied Powers.Turning To An Even Larger Canvas, Dower Now Examines The Cultures Of War Revealed By Four Powerful Eventspearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 911, And The Invasion Of Iraq In The Name Of A War On Terror. The List Of Issues Examined And Themes Explored Is Wideranging: Failures Of Intelligence And Imagination, Wars Of Choice And 'Strategic Imbecilities,' Faithbased Secular Thinking As Well As More Overtly Holy Wars, The Targeting Of Noncombatants, And The Almost Irresistible Logicand Allureof Mass Destruction. Dowers New Work Also Sets The U.S. Occupations Of Japan And Iraq Side By Side In Strikingly Original Ways.One Of The Most Important Books Of This Decade, Cultures Of War Offers Comparative Insights Into Individual And Institutional Behavior And Pathologies That Transcend 'Cultures' In The More Traditional Sense, And That Ultimately Go Beyond Warmaking Alone. 122 Blackandwhite Illustrations