Cultures of War

Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

By John W. Dower; Kevin Foley (Narrator)
(Tantor Media, MP3 CD, 9781400169580)

Publication Date: September 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, Compact Disc, Compact Disc

Categories: Military - Iraq War (2003-), Military - World War II, Military - United States

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Description

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John W. Dower presents a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.




About the Author

John W. Dower is the author of a number of books, including Embracing Defeat, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and War Without Mercy. He is a professor emeritus of history at MIT and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Kevin Foley has over thirty years' experience in radio and television broadcasting, commercial voice-overs, and audiobook narration. He has recorded over 150 audiobooks, including Storm Rising by Gary Naiman, 100 Ways to Bring Out Your Best by Roger Fritz, The Last Witness by Joel Goldman, and River Thunder by Gary McCarthy, for which he earned a Spur Award for Best Audiobook from the Western Writers of America. He has also won an Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine for his narration of Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky.




Praise For Cultures of War

"An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study." ---Kirkus Starred Review

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