在二次世界大战时期的美国人看来，太平洋彼岸的岛国日本生活着一群“小男人”。这些人时而恭顺，时而好战，是原始人、幼童和疯子的综合体。 相反，在日本看来美国才是威胁亚洲的魔鬼和野兽。日本作为神选之民，有责任带领亚洲其他国家抗击列强，吊民伐罪。 种族主义一旦成为战争工具，其威力堪比任何枪炮，有过之而无不及。在精心设计的宣传策略下，种族偏见助长了暴行，暴行又煽动起更严重的种族仇恨。 虽然战争已经结束，但种族主义并未消失，反而扎根于现代社会，伺机再次燃起战火。为了将人们从种族主义和战争的恶性循环中解放，普利策奖获奖作家约翰·W. 道尔从一个崭新的角度为我们剖析并展现出了“二战”中日本和美国间的那一场“无情之战”。 ---------------------- 【编辑推荐】 ·普利策奖获奖作者作品，《拥抱战败》姊妹篇，前美国驻日本大使推荐。 ·从独特角度解读日本和美国在第二次世界大战过程中的变化与挣扎。有助于理解现代美国对华政策。 ---------------------- 【名家推荐】 一本里程碑意义的作品，一本日本和美国双方都需要的，有力、动人、公正的历史作品。 ——约翰·托兰（John Toland）（普利策奖获奖作品《日本帝国衰亡史》作者） 美国和日本战争史上最重要和具有原创性的作品之一。 ——纽约时报 战后的一代最需要的一课，行文流畅、细节丰富，充满说服力。 ——埃文·O·赖晓尔（前美国驻日本大使1910—1990）

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. 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 of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order.