The Gi War Against Japan

Author : Peter Schrijvers
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814740154
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The GI War Against Japan written by Peter Schrijvers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Even in the midst of World War II, Americans could not help thinking of the lands across the Pacific as a continuation of the American Western frontier. But this perception only heightened American soldiers' frustration as the hostile region ferociously resisted their attempts at control. The GI War Against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theater to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Schrijvers brings to life the GIs’ struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Amidst the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage that presaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The GI’s story is, first and foremost, the story of America's resounding victory over Japan. At the same time, however, the reader will recognize in the extraordinarily high price paid for this victory chilling forebodings of the West’s ultimate defeat in Asia’and America’s in Vietnam.

Author : P. Schrijvers
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333771334
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The GI War Against Japan written by P. Schrijvers and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Walter E. Grunden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Weapons and World War II written by Walter E. Grunden and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous writers have focused primarily on strategic, military, and intelligence factors, Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vunerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II.

Author : Donald O. Dencker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897452571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Company written by Donald O. Dencker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretning om et amerikansk kompagni, "Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division", under angrebene på de japanske øe, Leyte og Okinava, under 2. Verdenskrig. Forfatteren gjorde selv kampene med, først som menig senere som sergent og var den ene ud af 7 overlevne fra det oprindelige kompagni.

Author : Sidney C. Moody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Against Japan written by Sidney C. Moody and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II rated in Europe and in the Pacific, the Associated Press reported the action. The AP was there as witness and recorder of history from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Midway and Okinawa, in the air, on the ground, and at sea, sending back stories and pictures under battle conditions. The author provides an incisive and penetrating narrative of the war, including quotes, anecdotes, and analysis. Over 100 photographs are featured from the AP archives.

Author : John J. Sbrega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317431782
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against Japan, 1941-1945 written by John J. Sbrega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.

Author : William Breuer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891415862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil Boats written by William Breuer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Rupert traces the relationship between American global power and the rise of mass production. The United States was propelled to the apex of the global division of labor, ensuring victory in World War II and enabling postwar reconstruction under American leadership. Through a study of Ford Motor Company between 1914 and 1952, he examines the political and ideological struggles through which industrial labor was incorporated into the coalition of statesmen and capitalists that constructed the postwar world order.

Author : Daniel James Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557423
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing the Mountain written by Daniel James Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.

Author : S.Woodburn Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845740634
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against Japan: The reconquest of Burma written by S.Woodburn Kirby and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the penultimate book in the series of five in the 18-volume official History of the Second World War that deal with the war against Japan, is primarily the story of the forgotten army . The 14th Anglo-Indian army, commanded by Lt. Gen. Sir William Bill Slim, was the force that wrested Burma from the harsh hands of its Japanese conquerors in a hard-fought campaign from August 1944 to May 1945. Japan had overreached itself earlier in 1944 when the Allies had defeated its attempt to capture Imphal. Without giving the enemy time to recover, Slim, supported by the RAF, advanced deep into Burma, braving the monsoon season, covering 600 miles from Imphal, and crossing the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers to reach the gates of Burma s capital, Rangoon. It is, as the authors proudly say, an epic story ; a victory made possible by careful planning, flexibility, foresight, improvisation and the command of the skies established by the RAF. The authors describe both the jungle fighting, and detail the daunting problems of supply and logistics which were triumphantly overcome by the campaign s planners. They also describe the political problems faced by the Supreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in fending off attempts by his American and Chinese allies to bleed away the 14th Army s support and supplies for their own use. The text is supported by 27 appendices on logistics, and fully illustrated by 13 main maps, 21 sketch maps, and 92 photographs.

Author : S. W. Kirby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against Japan. Vol. 4 written by S. W. Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: