What to Read After Embracing Defeat
Readers who loved Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Embracing Defeat is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Embracing Defeat
The rising sun
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Stilwell and the American experience in China 1911–1945
Japan at War
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Dogs and Demons
The Making of Modern Japan
Inventing Japan
Samurai William
Tokyo Underworld
Downfall
Tokyo Vice
Korea's Place in the Sun
Shutting out the sun
A modern history of Japan
The enigma of Japanese power
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 2)
So sad to fall in battle
War without mercy
Vietnam, a history
War trash
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
Racing the enemy