George Feifer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-06-088432-1
This book, a detailed history of Japan from the American fleet's arrival in Uraga Bay in July 1853 to its departure in June 1854, demonstrates how Japan's powerlessness to oppose the imperialist intentions of Commodore Matthew Perry planted a seed...
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George Feifer, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $29.95 (622p) ISBN 978-0-395-59924-2
Tennozan: a decisive, all-out stand. Thus did the Japanese characterize the vicious, sprawling struggle for the island of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Feifer ( Moscow Farewell ) relates events throughout the campaign from American, Japanese and...
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George Feifer, Author New Press $25 (322p) ISBN 978-1-56584-272-4
This collection of 37 interviews with divorced men and women, lawyers, mediators, judges and counselors emphasizes the wrenching emotions inherent in divorce, but these anecdotes provide no real enlightenment about the causes of marital breakups....
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George Feifer, Author TV Books $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57500-081-7
Based on the PBS Red Files documentary series, Feifer's fresh reassessment of the former Soviet Union and the Cold War turns up some original and provocative material. Feifer (Moscow Farewell and Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb)...
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