03588nam 2200673 a 450 991046331990332120211028013203.00-674-07399-10-674-07397-510.4159/harvard.9780674073975(CKB)2670000000352479(EBL)3301295(SSID)ssj0000871462(PQKBManifestationID)11471587(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871462(PQKBWorkID)10823810(PQKB)10749676(MiAaPQ)EBC3301295(DE-B1597)209773(OCoLC)841170723(OCoLC)979588809(DE-B1597)9780674073975(Au-PeEL)EBL3301295(CaPaEBR)ebr10691838(EXLCZ)99267000000035247920121011d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u|||txtccrEvil men[electronic resource] /James DawesCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20131 online resource (280 p.)Includes index.0-674-07265-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Evil Men --Notes --Acknowledgments --IndexPresented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. 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. Drawing on firsthand interviews with convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), James Dawes leads us into the frightening territory where soldiers perpetrated some of the worst crimes imaginable: murder, torture, rape, medical experimentation on living subjects. Transcending conventional reporting and commentary, Dawes's narrative weaves together unforgettable segments from the interviews with consideration of the troubling issues they raise. Telling the personal story of his journey to Japan, Dawes also lays bare the cultural misunderstandings and ethical compromises that at times called the legitimacy of his entire project into question. For this book is not just about the things war criminals do. It is about what it is like, and what it means, to befriend them. Do our stories of evil deeds make a difference? Can we depict atrocity without sensational curiosity? Anguished and unflinchingly honest, as eloquent as it is raw and painful, Evil Men asks hard questions about the most disturbing capabilities human beings possess, and acknowledges that these questions may have no comforting answers.Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945AtrocitiesPsychological aspectsSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945Personal narratives, JapaneseWar criminalsJapanInterviewsWar criminalsPsychologyWar crimesPsychological aspectsElectronic books.Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945AtrocitiesPsychological aspects.Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945War criminalsWar criminalsPsychology.War crimesPsychological aspects.940.54/050951Dawes James1969-1034795MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463319903321Evil men2454136UNINA