Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
- ISBN-10
- 0393340686
- ISBN-13
- 9780393340686
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 640
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-12
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- John W. Dower
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces behind Pan-Asian and Pan-Islam movements. Reprint. A National Book Award Finalist.
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