ISBN10: 0393046869, ISBN13: 9780393046861, [publisher: W.W. Norton & Company] Hardcover W.W. Norton & Company Historical Books (W.W. Norton & Company) Embracing Defeat (VG+) (no dust jacket)Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & CompanyProduct Line: Historical Books (W.W. Norton & Company)Type: HardcoverCopyright Date: 1999Author: John DowerPage Count: 676Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+ - no dust jacket. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: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 more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work ...