P. Schrijvers

The GI War Against Japan

American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II. Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2002 edition. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 320 Seiten

ISBN 1349415499

EAN 9781349415496

Veröffentlicht Januar 2002

Verlag/Hersteller Palgrave MacMillan UK

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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

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

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