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."

約翰•W•道爾(John W. Dower)

哈佛大學博士學位，美國麻省理工學院曆史學教授，美國藝術科學院院±，美國曆史學會委員。主要研究領域是近現代日本史和美日關係，是相關領域最重要的學者之一。他的研究著作多次獲包括普立策奬和美國國傢圖書奬在內的重要學術奬項。他的《擁抱戰敗》獲普利策奬。

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譯者簡介

韓華

四川隆昌人，曆史學博士，國傢圖書館研究館員。曾齣版專著《民初孔教會與國教運動研究》《罪證——從東京審判看日本侵華鴉片戰爭》；譯著《孔門理財學》《審判山下奉文：戰爭罪與指揮官責任》等七部。曾在《近代史研究》《抗日戰爭研究》《日本侵華史研究》等刊物上發錶論文三十餘篇。