Bloody Pacific

American Soldiers at War with Japan

• Author(s): P. Schrijvers,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 278
• ISBN_10: 0230292305
  ISBN_13: 9780230292307
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / General , History / Modern / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , History / Asia / General , History / Military / General , History / Australia & New Zealand , History / General ,

Description:... Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life.