Very interesting deconstruction of the symbolism of Pearl Harbor and 9-11 as well as a solidly documented history of the events in the title. Dower does a good job of showing how strategic decisions are made without being overly partisan taking a broad view of culture, bureaucracy, religion, econ...
They follow upon a previous collection published by The New Press in 1993 under the title Japan in War and Peace. The one exception is the first entry, an excerpt from a long essay titled “E.H. Norman, Japan, and the Uses of History” that I wrote as an introduction to an edited book of Norman’s h...