NMLP P-016446 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower · W. W. Norton / The New Press · 1999

US co-publication by W. W. Norton and The New Press (New York), 1999, is the true first. It won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016446 for "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II" by John W. Dower (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016446, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).