1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower’s brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering afterma…

Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad

David Haward Bain

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

David M. Kennedy

The First World War

John Keegan

The Holocaust in American Life

Peter Novick