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Bloody PacificAmerican soldiers at war with Japan /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bloody PacificPeter Schrijvers.
Reminder of title:	American soldiers at war with Japan /
Author:	Schrijvers, Peter,
other author:	Schrijvers, Peter,
Published:	Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010.
Description:	xiii, 278 p., [8] p. of plates :ill.
Notes:	"First published in hardback as The GI war against Japan, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945CampaignsPacific Area.
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230292307

Bloody PacificAmerican soldiers at war with Japan /
Schrijvers, Peter,1963-

Bloody PacificAmerican soldiers at war with Japan /[electronic resource] :Peter Schrijvers. - 2nd ed., Rev. pbk. ed. - Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - xiii, 278 p., [8] p. of plates :ill.

"First published in hardback as The GI war against Japan, 2002"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Land of Myths -- World of Dreams -- Gospel of Civilization -- Visions of Empire -- The Green Hell -- Yellow Peril -- Curse of the Spirits -- Jungle Fever -- Mad Dogs -- A Fist of Steel -- A Seaof Fire.

Bloody Pacific tells the real story of the attitudes and behaviour of American fighting men in the war against Japan, revealing much about the nature of this terrifying conflict that has until now remained unknown. Based on years of research and using countless unpublished diariesand letters,Schrijvers sweeps across the battlefields, from the desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and from the daunting spaces of the China-Burma-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In a manner that is often unsettling, Bloody Pacific bringsto life the GIs' epic struggle with suffocating wilderness, debilitating diseases, and Japanese soldiers choosing death over life. Amid the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage against nature and man, and prayed for the bombs that would wipe away Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230292307Subjects--Topical Terms:

478280
World War, 1939-1945
--Campaigns--Pacific Area.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: D767 / .S352 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 940.541273

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