WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALISTNow 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 Warracewhile writing what John Toland has called ';a landmark book . . . a powerful, moving, and evenhanded 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.'