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Cultures of War

Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

by John W. Dower

Cultures of War

Hardcover, 596 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $29.95 | purchase

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Presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces behind Pan-Asian and Pan-Islam movements.

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History Repeats Itself In 'Cultures Of War'

by NPR Staff

In the wake of Sept. 11, World War II terms like "ground zero" and "day of infamy" quickly became common parlance. And when the U.S. went to war in Iraq in 2003, historian John Dower writes in his book Cultures Of War, he saw other WWII parallels, as dissent was quashed and, he says, strategic blunders piled up.

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, historian John Dower began noticing echoes of WWII. And after the U.S. invaded Iraq, Dower found extensive parallels between the lead-ups to both conflicts.

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