Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II Golden Archer Award for Middle/Junior High (2005) offering a galvanizing critique and

offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet

and especially the United States

whose first novel

the power of perseverance

Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I

Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II Golden Archer Award for Middle/Junior High (2005) offering a galvanizing critique andWinner 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