PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : EMBRACING DEFEAT PB – JOHN W DOWER

"Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur s report to Congress, this monumental new work by America s foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan s national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experiences of humiliation at the hands of a foreign power and liberation from the demands of a suicidal nationalism. The result is a titanic history, and a landmark book."