Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq, (Hardcover)

from labdaddy4

While a fascinating and detailed history of the parallels between Pearl Harbor/WW II/Hiroshima and 9-11/Iraq War - the work was far too repetitive. The author made his point and very effectively damned Bush and his "team" for their actions pre and post 9-11. Dower did this early in the book and m...

from Narboink

This account seems fair to me. Of course, anyone who thinks that Operation Iraqi Freedom was an unqualified success and a wholly noble enterprise, both justifiable and necessary, well... they will doubtless be hard-pressed to finish the first chapter. John Dower takes the arguments of the Iraq Wa...

from rivkat

Fascinating and passionate comparative study drawing many contrasts and parallels, for example the immediate and uncritical adoption of "Ground Zero" for the WTC site that built on the US history of not thinking too hard about who'd been killed in Japan and erasing the Allies' own history of "ter...

from rivkat

Fascinating and passionate comparative study drawing many contrasts and parallels, for example the immediate and uncritical adoption of "Ground Zero" for the WTC site that built on the US history of not thinking too hard about who'd been killed in Japan and erasing the Allies' own history of "ter...