Embracing Defeat - Japan In The Wake Of World War II Deborah O'Connor when their own daughters' storylines

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utterly unnerving novel' - GILLIAN FLYNN

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Embracing Defeat - Japan In The Wake Of World War II Deborah O'Connor when their own daughters' storylinesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. 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