Bloody Pacific American Soldiers at War with Japan

by Schrijvers, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780230274365
• ISBN10: 0230274366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Based on years of research and countless unpublished diaries and letters, Peter Schrijvers tells the real story of the attitudes and behaviour of American fighting men in the war against Japan.

Author Biography

PETER SCHRIJVERS  teaches American and International History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is the author of The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II, The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge and Liberators: The Allies and Belgian Society, 1944-1945. His work on World War II has received international acclaim and been made a selection of the History Book Club in the US.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Notes on the Sources and Literature	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
The Elusive Frontier	p. 1
Land of Myths	p. 3
World of Dreams	p. 26
Gospel of Civilization	p. 48
Visions of Empire	p. 73
A Hidden Force	p. 99
The Green Hell	p. 101
Yellow Peril	p. 135
Curse of the Spirits	p. 157
Jungle Fever	p. 194
Hostile to Our Blood	p. 205
Mad Dogs	p. 207
A Fist of Steel	p. 226
A Sea of Fire	p. 244
Selected Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 273
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