Stock ID #180062 Bloody Pacific. American Soldiers at War with Japan. P. SCHRIJVERS.

Bloody Pacific. American Soldiers at War with Japan.

Hampshire. Palgrave Macmillan. 2010. Stock ID #180062

Black and white photographic plates, xiii + 278pp, bibliography, index, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good paperback copy.

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.

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