WAR WITHOUT MERCY

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST Now in paperback War Without Mercy has been hailed by The New York Times as one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States. In this monumental history Professor John Dower reveals a hidden explosive dimension of the Pacific War race while writing what John Toland has called a landmark book . . . a powerful moving and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan. Drawing on American and Japanese songs slogans cartoons propaganda films secret reports and a wealth of other documents of the time Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer former ambassador to Japan has pointed out this book offers a lesson that the postwar generations need most . . . with eloquence crushing detail and power.