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War without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR
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Dower's premise in War without Mercy is a startling one: Though Western allies were clearly headed for victory, pure racism fueled the continuation and intensification of hostilities in the Pacific theater during the final year of World War II, a period that saw as many casualties as in the first five years of the conflict combined. Dower doesn't reach this disturbing conclusion lightly. He combed through piles of propaganda films, news articles, military documents, cartoons--even entries in academic journals in researching this book. Though his case is strong, Dower minimizes other factors, such as the protracted negotiations between the West and the Japanese.
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War Without Mercy offers a fresh and challenging insight into the Pacific phase of World War II by examining the racist stereotypes that dominated the way Americans and Japanese thought about each other. Dower (History, Univ. of California, San Diego) has mined an extraordinary array of both U.S. and Japanese sourceseverything from comic books to secret government documentsto buttress the notion that images influenced the policy and wartime behavior of both powers. "Harsh words are seen to be inseparable from the harshest of all acts: war and killing," he writes. The book should enjoy the widest of audiences, from the general reader to the most demanding specialist. John H. Boyle, History Dept., California State Univ., Chico
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Most of us read in school about how the peoples of War-era Japan or the former Soviet Union were manipulated by the press and other media. This book is about the subtle and not-so-subtle media manipulation in the US and Japan during the War in the Pacific.
In many ways, the media messages in the respective countries mirrored each other. For example, both Japan and the US looked upon each other as simian others. That is to say, the Japanese portrayed Americans as large apes and we portrayed them as monkeys. Another aspect of the war-time propaganda that the book explores is how each side used the protection of their country's women from the rapacious enemy as cause to fight.
Many other examples of how we and our enemy de-humanized the other to make killing easier are presented throughout the text. The book includes many images of political cartoons and magazine covers that are shocking in their brutal stereotyping of the enemy. It is somewhat ironic that two countries which claimed to be so different from each other could make that claim in such similar ways.
If you are interested in the Pacific War or about how propaganda was used in either the US or Japan, I would highly recommend this book
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A well-written, engaging,and illuminating account of how the Pacific War, which had been going on since 1931 (some might argue since 1895, when Japan defeated China in their struggle for control of Korea and Taiwan), became embroiled into the larger world conflict and how American and Japanese cultures dealt with it. The examination of ethnocentric stereotypes is superb. One would think that those who know anything about World War II in the Pacific from the American point of view would be aware of the anti-Japanese stereotypes (in, for example, the propaganda films of Frank Capra). As a result, Dower particularly fascinates with his analysis of Japanese propaganda (the familiar folk tale of Momotaro the Peach Boy having a more sinister underside than I was aware of, reading it in first grade) which might not be very well known to most American readers. This book should be suggested for any class on the Twentieth Century, and required for any class on World War II or the Pacific War in particular.
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Overall, this book presents a side of the Second World War with which most Americans are unfamiliar and may find shocking. It does a valuable service in exposing many of the prejudices of the time and especially in showing how those prejudices were at least partly responsible for the string of debacles endured by U.S. and other allied forces in the war's opening stages. It also does a very good job of giving the reader a glimpse of the kind of thinking that was prevalent in Japanese society prior to and during the war. In this sense it is an extremely important work and is highly recommended to anyone with a serious interest in the Pacific Theater. However, having said that, I will also say that the author overplays his hand and puts far too much emphasis on the role of racism, portraying it as the primary cause of the war and of the evils that transpired during its execution. As a result, it has a tendency to explain away a good many complex issues that deserve a fuller treatment. It also falls prey to one of the great pitfalls of almost all modern analyses of relations between Japan and America, namely the idea that in order to be balanced one must give equal weight to both sides in any argument. As a result, one might come away from reading this book with the idea that Japan and the United States were essentially of equivalent culpability and that their respective leaders were of a moral kind. This is an absolutely absurd notion, and one that seems to have taken root in more and more of the academic work that is being published recently. Nowhere is Dower's judgment with regard to the impacts of racism more questionable than in his conclusion, where he tries to explain away contemporary (1980's) trade frictions as the result of race hatreds. This pathetic and obvious red herring does little more than to serve as an apologia for a Japanese elite that has been doing anything its it power to prevent its very real and well documented (see Karel Van Wolferen's "The Enigma of Japanese Power," Clyde Prestowitz's "Trading Places," and Pat Choate's "Agents of Influence" for more) outrages with regard to its bilateral trade relationship with the United States from coming to light. Nonetheless, as I wrote earlier, I do recommend it for anyone with an interest in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, but with the caveats that it should under no circumstances be treated as a comprehensive work and that its aforementioned shortcomings be kept in mind as one reads it. When Dower sticks to the subject of his book, without engaging in too much reckless speculation, he suceeds admirably in creating a readable and sometimes shocking history, boldly exposing in a way that few other books have even attempted, the dark side of "The Good War."
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Classic 80's revisionism
This book is an interesting hodge-podge of documentation puporting to show an atavistic racism as the cause of America's devastating war against Japan in WW2. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 2000 von Jeffrey L. Thurston
Must-read for Asian-Americans (& others)
After reading this book, it pains me to find it so seldom in bookstores, even on the West Coast. Very well researched and written, fair to both sides, it's the best book I've ever... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. November 1998 von Clarissa Tartar (tartar@way.com)
A fascinating perspective on the Pacific War
Dower asks "why was the Pacific War so much more violent, so much uglier, than the Atlantic War? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. September 1997 veröffentlicht
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