War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 Home A profound portrait of one

A profound portrait of one man’s internal struggles during a time of brutal world conflict

who shared with him at the last possible moment their stories of America’s Great War

And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war

by Margaret MacMillan

created a remarkable and enduring legacy

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 Home A profound portrait of oneDescription by Frederick R. Dickinson Paperback For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and