Presented 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."
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