New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxxvii, [1], 596, [6] pages. This book was a National Book Award Finalist and there is a sticker to this effect on the front of the DJ. Includes 122 black and white illustrations. Also includes Preface: The Evolution of an Inquiry, and Acknowledgments. Part 1 covers "Pearl Harbor" as Code: Wars of Choice and Failures of Intelligence. Part 2 covers Ground Zero 1945 and Ground Zero 2001: Terror and Mass Destruction. Part 3 covers Wars and Occupations: Winning the Peace, Losing the Peace. There are also Notes, Illustration Credits, and an Index. John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association. Dower earned a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig. He expanded his dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, into the book Empire and Aftermath. His other books include a selection of writings by E. Herbert Norman and a study of mutual images during WWII entitled War Without Mercy. Dower was a producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. He is a Ford International Professor of History, Emeritus, at MIT. More