LEADER 03588nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910463319903321 005 20211028013203.0 010 $a0-674-07399-1 010 $a0-674-07397-5 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674073975 035 $a(CKB)2670000000352479 035 $a(EBL)3301295 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871462 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11471587 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871462 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10823810 035 $a(PQKB)10749676 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301295 035 $a(DE-B1597)209773 035 $a(OCoLC)841170723 035 $a(OCoLC)979588809 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674073975 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301295 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10691838 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000352479 100 $a20121011d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEvil men$b[electronic resource] /$fJames Dawes 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-674-07265-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tEvil Men --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aPresented 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. 606 $aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945$xAtrocities$xPsychological aspects 606 $aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945$vPersonal narratives, Japanese 606 $aWar criminals$zJapan$vInterviews 606 $aWar criminals$xPsychology 606 $aWar crimes$xPsychological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945$xAtrocities$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 615 0$aWar criminals 615 0$aWar criminals$xPsychology. 615 0$aWar crimes$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a940.54/050951 700 $aDawes$b James$f1969-$01034795 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463319903321 996 $aEvil men$92454136 997 $aUNINA