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A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. Here he examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and "strategic imbecilities," faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic--and allure--of mass destruction. Dower also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways. He offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.--From publisher description.

11 september 2001 [Terroristische aanslagen van ] --- 11 septembre 2001 [Attaques terroristes du ] --- 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Aanslagen op het World Trade Center en het Pentagon, 2001 --- Attaques terroristes du 11 septembre, 2001 --- Attentats terroristes du World Trade Center et du Pentagon, 2001 --- Deuxième Guerre mondiale --- Guerre d'Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Guerre mondiale (2e), 1939-1945 --- Guerre mondiale II --- Irak--History--Anglo-Amerikaanse invasie, 2003-2011 --- Irakese oorlog, 2003-2011 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Iraq--Histoire--Invasion anglo-américaine, 2003-2011 --- Iraq--History--Anglo-American Invasion, 2003-2011 --- Pentagon (Va.) Terrorist Attack, 2001 --- Pentagon [Attaque terroriste du ], 2001 --- Pentagon [Terroristische aanslag op het ], 2001 --- Pentagon-World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Seconde Guerre mondiale --- Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terror Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terrorism, 2001 --- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001 --- Terrorist Attacks, September 11, 2001 --- Terroristische aanslagen, 11 september 2001 --- Tours jumelles [Attaque terroriste des ], 2001 --- Twin towers [Terrorist attack ], 2001 --- Twin towers [Terroristische aanslag op de ], 2001 --- W.O. II --- WO 2 --- WO II --- WW 2 --- Wereldoorlog (2de), 1939-1945 --- Wereldoorlog II --- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) Terrorist Attack, 2001 --- World Trade Center [Attaque terroriste du ], 2001 --- World Trade Center [Terroristische aanslag op het ], 2001 --- World Trade Center-Pentagon Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- World War II --- World War [second ] --- World War, 1939-1945 --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Strategic culture --- War and society --- 815 Geschiedenis --- 852 Internationale conflicten --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Culture --- Military policy --- National security --- 911 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Attack on America, 2001 (September 11 Terrorist Attacks) --- Nine-Eleven Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Hijacking of aircraft --- Terrorism --- United States --- History, Military --- Military policy. --- History [Military ] --- 20th century --- 21st century --- World War, 1939-1945. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011.

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Historian John Dower delves intoa range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese watime propaganda, and the ways in which the nuceal bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ae remembered in Japan.Ofering urgent insights into how citizens of a democracy should deal with their history.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Collective memory --- Social change --- J3000 --- J3384 --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Historiography --- Social aspects --- Influence --- History --- Japan: History -- historiography, theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II (1931-1945) --- World War (1939-1945) --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Historiography. --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- History of Asia --- anno 1940-1949 --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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Prime ministers --- Yoshida, Shigeru, --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- Japan --- Yoshida Shigeru, to 1954 Biographies

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This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. He traces the fate of sixty-five shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by their captors. Another thirty-two nurses were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women” -- sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs were massacred in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945, while those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. This new edition also includes a powerful chapter on the island of Nauru, where thirty-nine leprosy patients were killed and thousands of Naurans were ill-treated and forced to leave their homes. Without denying individual and national responsibility, the author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war. In his substantially revised conclusion, Tanaka brings in significant new interpretations to explain why Japanese imperial forces were so brutal, tracing the historical processes that created such a unique military structure and ideology. Finally, he investigates why a strong awareness of their collective responsibility for wartime atrocities has been and still is lacking among the Japanese. -- Provided by publisher.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Australians --- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese --- Crimes against --- World War (1939-1945) --- Japan --- Armed Forces --- Attitude.