Gary J. Bass
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Gary J. Bass

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Gary Bass is the author of Judgment at Tokyo (Knopf); The Blood Telegram (Knopf); Freedom's Battle (Knopf); and Stay the Hand of Vengeance (Princeton). He is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. Judgment at Tokyo won the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. It was named one of the year’s 10 best books by The Washington Post, 12 essential nonfiction books by The New Yorker, 100 notable books by The New York Times, and 10 essential books by The Telegraph, and a New York Times Book Review editors’ choice, as well as a best book of the year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Air Mail. It was the book of the week in The Observer and The Sunday Times. The Blood Telegram was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in general nonfiction, and won the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, the Bernard Schwartz Book Prize from the Asia Society, the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, among other prizes. It was a New York Times and Washington Post notable book of the year, and a best book of the year in The Economist, Financial Times, and The New Republic. A former reporter for The Economist, Bass writes often for The New York Times, and has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and other publications.
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    • World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
    • Written by: Gary J. Bass
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 31 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2023-10-17
    • Language: English
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