内容简介

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 even-handed 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."

作者简介

约翰•W•道尔(John W. Dower)

哈佛大学博士学位，美国麻省理工学院历史学教授，美国艺术科学院院±，美国历史学会委员。主要研究领域是近现代日本史和美日关系，是相关领域最重要的学者之一。他的研究著作多次获包括普立策奖和美国国家图书奖在内的重要学术奖项。他的《拥抱战败》获普利策奖。

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译者简介

韩华

四川隆昌人，历史学博士，国家图书馆研究馆员。曾出版专著《民初孔教会与国教运动研究》《罪证——从东京审判看日本侵华鸦片战争》；译著《孔门理财学》《审判山下奉文：战争罪与指挥官责任》等七部。曾在《近代史研究》《抗日战争研究》《日本侵华史研究》等刊物上发表论文三十余篇。

精彩摘录

p.147：史古脱公司的厕纸：

——引自第147页

p.209：绝对的团结感,这集中体现在频频出现的用语“一亿”上,“一亿”本身就是一个“超越”用语,因为当时的日本人口仅略高于七千万；p.320：词语“一亿”（日文为ichioku）是日本的诗歌用语，体现了符合战时思想意识的典型英雄主义光环。当时日本的实际人口数量是7000多万。

——引自第147页