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  • Bloody Pacific[electronic resource] :American soldiers at war with Japan /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 940.541273
    書名/作者: Bloody Pacific : American soldiers at war with Japan // Peter Schrijvers.
    作者: Schrijvers, Peter,
    其他作者: Schrijvers, Peter,
    出版者: Basingstoke ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    面頁冊數: xiii, 278 p., [8] p. of plates : : ill.
    附註: "First published in hardback as The GI war against Japan, 2002"--T.p. verso.
    標題: World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific Area.
    標題: World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Asia.
    標題: World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, American.
    標題: United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
    ISBN: 9780230292307
    ISBN: 0230292305
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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 Based on years of research and using countless unpublished diariesand letters,Schrijvers sweeps across the battlefields, from the desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and from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.
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