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The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II de P. Schrijvers

The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II

Autor P. Schrijvers
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iun 2002
Based on numerous diaries and letters, this book depicts the story of America's soldier sin Asia and the Pacific during World War II. Combining social and cultural history, the author examines the GIs' encounters with Asia's environmental, sociocultural and racial otherness and the impact that these encounters had on them. The Americans' experience in Asia and the Pacific presaged the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333771334
ISBN-10: 0333771338
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: XV, 320 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:2002
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Dedication List of Abbreviations List of Endnote Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements PART I: FRONTIER Pioneers Romantics Missionaries Imperialists PART II: FRUSTRATION Nature Masses Mind 'Going Asiatic' PART III: FURY Human Rage Industrial Violence Technological Destruction Notes Bibliography Index

Recenzii

'This terrifying, remarkable work examines the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of U.S. fighting men in the Pacific theater during World War II. Imaginatively drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, military reports, and contemporary psychological assessments, Schrijvers reveals the social, historical, and emotional roots of the peculiarly frenzied and merciless war that Americans fought in what they regarded as an exotic and impenetrable paradise a conflict that escalated into a campaign of extermination, and a war against the land and nature itself. Schrijvers's sober account of Americans' wartime rage, which manifested itself in wholesale rape and the indiscriminate killing of civilians, is far from a work of crude revisionism he reminds us of the abysmal conduct of the Japanese, and he refreshingly and correctly views the dropping of the atomic bomb as a continuation of the methods used by all the combatants. Nevertheless, this temperate study of murderous fury is among the most unsettling books I've read in years.
- The Atlantic Monthly
"A rich and compelling cultural and social history of American servicemen and -women serving in Asia and the Pacific during World War II."
- The Journal of American History
"Just when it appeared that little remained to be said about the Pacific War, Schrijvers produces the best social history of the conflict to date...This is an important book, not only about WWII but also about the nature of waritself...Highly recommended."
- Choice
"Peter Schrijvers has pulled a double' by writing a worthy companion to The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II. His study of the soldiers' war against Japan transcends simplistic race-hate explanations and reconstructs the psycho-social context of war in which only the enemy remained the same."
- Allan R. Millett, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans
"Schrijvers' book is a valuable addition to the literature on the war in the Pacific."
- H-Net Book Review
"Schrijvers builds upon earlier works and successfully goes beyond them to provide a scholarly account of the full range of American experiences in the Pacific and Asian theatres. He makes excellent use of diaries, letters, training manuals, and official reports. The book is an impressive scholarly achievement. Schrijvers's vivid portrayal of the American experience in the war against Japan permits us to see that experience in a broader historical context and reveals patterns of thought and action that are enduring features of the American character."
- The International History Review
"One cannot read this volume without coming away with a fresh way of thinking about the subject. Peter Schrijvers has broadened our perspective of the sociology of the American fighting man in the Second World War."
- War In History

Notă biografică

PETER SCHRIJVERS is Lecturer in U.S. Foreign Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.