Title:
American samurai : myth, imagination, and the conduct of battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951
Author:
Cameron, Craig M., 1958-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
xiii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1990.
Language:
English
Contents:
Mythic images of the Marines before Pearl Harbor -- Creating Marines and a masculine ideal -- Images of the Japanese "other" defined: Guadalcanal and beyond -- "Devil dogs" and "dogfaces": images of the "self" on Peleliu -- Okinawa: technology empowers ideology -- Collapse of the Pacific War images, 1945-1951 -- Rewriting the War.
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ISBN:
9780521441681
Format :
Book
