War Without Mercy Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon, 1986)

Why read it

• You will notice the paradox that the war hates seemed to disappear almost overnight after Japan's surrender
• You will see how Allied imagery depicted the Japanese as rodents, feeding exterminationist feeling
• You will learn that Japanese propaganda also caricatured the Allies, so racial hatred ran in both directions

Who it is for

• A reader of the Pacific War and Japan
• Someone studying propaganda and racial stereotypes
• Someone working to ease racial or ethnic hostility today

Contents

1. War Without Mercy, pp cover

More books like this

• 1177 B.C.Eric H. Cline
• 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on MoscowAdam Zamoyski
• 1929Andrew Ross Sorkin
• A History of the Arab PeoplesAlbert Hourani
• A History of WarfareJohn Keegan
• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on TerrorLarry Schweikart, Michael Patrick Allen
• A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924Orlando Figes
• A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSamantha Power
• A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley PowellDonald Worster
• A Rumor of WarPhilip Caputo
• A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962Alistair Horne