Evil Men

A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, "Evil Men" confronts atrocity head-on how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them."

About the author

James Dawes is DeWitt Wallace Professor of English at Macalester College.

Summary

A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, "Evil Men" confronts atrocity head-on how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them."

Product details

• Authors: James Dawes, Dawes James
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2014
• EAN: 9780674416796
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41679-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, History, War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, military history, Second World War, Ethics and moral philosophy, War Crimes, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Human rights, civil rights, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General