1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower’s brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering afterma…
1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist

Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad
David Haward Bain

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy

The First World War
John Keegan
