The GI War Against Japan

American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II

• Author(s): P. Schrijvers,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 320
• ISBN_10: 0333771338
  ISBN_13: 9780333771334
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , History / World , History / Military / World War II , History / General ,

Description:... 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.