War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, (Paperback)

from Waltersgn

A history that points out that both the U.S. and Japan used racism and propaganda to serve their political needs during WW II.

from antiquary

Very useful and balanced book making clear both sides were far from saints amid wartime pressures

from KirkLowery

This book relates the emotional and psychological environment of the Pacific war between the Allies and Japan. What it shows is that Japan and the US were/are the same: racist, using many of the sa...

from daschaich

Race and Power in the Pacific War: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Dower begins "War Without Mercy" with an amusing account of his inspiration for the book: While working on a history of post...

from rivkat

Dower investigates how the racial beliefs of Americans and Japanese contributed to the ferocity of WWII in the Pacific. Both sides committed atrocities, often aided by the belief that the other was...