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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.

  • Sales Rank: #2643900 in Books
  • Brand: Brand: NYU Press
  • Published on: 2005-03-01
  • Released on: 2005-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.50" h x .85" w x 5.50" l, .88 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 320 pages
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Review

“Schrijvers’ book is a valuable addition to the literature on the war in the Pacific.”
-H-Net Book Review


“This terrifying, remarkable work examines the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of U.S. fighting men in the Pacific theatre. . . . Among the most unsettling books I've read in years.”
-The Atlantic Monthly



“Just when it appeared that little remained to be said about the Pacific War, Schrijvers produces the best social history of the conflict to date...This is an important book, not only about WWII but also about the nature of war itself . . . Highly recommended.”
-Choice


“Schrijvers builds upon earlier works and successfully goes beyond them to provide a scholarly account of the full range of American experiences in the Pacific and Asian theatres. He makes excellent use of diaries, letters, training manuals, and official reports. The book is an impressive scholarly achievement. Schrijvers’s vivid portrayal of the American experience in the war against Japan permits us to see that experience in a broader historical context and reveals patterns of thought and action that are enduring features of the American character.”
-The International History Review



“Peter Schrijvers has pulled a ‘double' by writing a worthy companion to The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II. His study of the soldiers' war against Japan transcends simplistic race-hate explanations and reconstructs the psycho-social context of war in which only the enemy remained the same.”
-Allan R. Millett,Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans

“A rich and compelling cultural and social history of American servicemen and -women serving in Asia and the Pacific during World War II.”
-The Journal of American History


“One cannot read this volume without coming away with a fresh way of thinking about the subject. Peter Schrijvers has broadened our perspective of the sociology of the American fighting man in the Second World War.”
-War In History

About the Author

Peter Schrijvers is Professor in American and International History at The University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is the author of The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II, also available from NYU Press.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Essential reading
By A World War II Reader
Those who cannot handle the ugly truth about warfare, and about warfare in this theater in particular, would do better to stay away from this harrowing book. Those who can, should be encouraged to buy and read it soon, in anticipation of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's much-awaited television series The Pacific.

The Atlantic Monthly is absolutely right: this is a terrifying book, but at the same time - because of that, because it refuses to pull any punches about the true nature of warfare in the Pacific - it is one of the best books ever on what American boys had to go through in the war against that most vicious of foes, the Japanese.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent product and vendor.
By Paul F. Miskovitz MD
This book provides a unique perspective on the day to day life of the American soldier assigned to Asia and the Pacific in World War II. It is anecdotal and very personal in presentation. A welcome and fascinating read.

13 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Sadly Lacking
By John P. Rooney
"The GI War Against Japan" by Peter Schrijvers. Subtitled: "American Soldiers In Asia And The Pacific During World War II." New York University Press, 2005, Paperback Edition.

Peter Schrijvers has a PhD in History from The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and currently teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia. This book, "The GI War Against Japan", follows the pattern of his previous books which deal with the often neglected effects of World War II on the civilian population. In his current effort, the author has expanded his emphasis to consider the ecological impact of the war. The book is sadly lacking because, in my humble opinion, Dr. Schrijvers has committed the mortal sin of Historians: Judging past events by the moral principles of the present. Do you think that the Imperial Japanese Navy considered the ecological damage that would be caused by the sneak bombing of all those battleships in Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941? Do you know that, today, the Battleship, USS Arizona, BB-39, is still leaking about a quart of oil into the waters of Pearl Harbor? Thank you, Japan. But, Dr. Schrijvers, in his book, emphasizes the ecological damage wrought by American forces in the Pacific Theater. Sorry, but don't you know there was a War on?

The racial card is played by Dr. Schrijvers. Sadly, I do not think that he has given enough emphasis to the racism of Imperial Japan. Recall the "Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Imperial Japan was at the top of her newly conquered territories. Racially speaking, at the top were the Japanese, the Yamato Race as a nucleus, then the Chinese and then brown skinned Asians, such as Indians or Malaysians or people from the Philippines. On the bottom, of course, were the whites...the European types. The Pacific War, a Naval war, came down to a struggle between a "white" navy, the United States Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. From the highest American admiral to the lowest sailor in the Pacific fleets, the motivating theme was "Remember Pearl Harbor". American propaganda was directed at the sneak attack, well planned, but still a sneak attack by the Japanese. Extravagant propaganda claims in the 1940s appear like racist remarks in 2009. By the way, in December 1944, when Nazi German forces charged through the Ardennes, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt corresponded with General Leslie Groves, (1896-1970), of the Manhattan Project, to ask if the A-Bomb could be used against the ever so-white Nazi Army. The Bomb was not ready at that time.

Sadly, the book is lacking a strong differentiation between US Army forces and the United States Marine Corps. Japanese fanaticism triggered their mass destruction when Japanese forces attacked United Sates Marines. This is not racial, but rather a difference in cultures. The Marines performed mass destruction on another Asian enemy some six years after World War II; see, for example:
"Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950"
by Martin Russ. Dr. Schrijvers appears to be a wee bit confused about the Marine Corps. On page 217, he describes the horror of Americans who watched a man, near the Taj Mahal, carry a dead child to the Jumna River to dispose of the body. Dr. Schrijvers states that the man tied "... a sinker to the corps, then heaved it into the water". Yes, it is the Marine Corps, but the good doctor wanted the English word CORPSE, meaning a body.

Tropics. Let me say that I spent almost three years at Naval Air Station, Key West, Florida. Instead of practicing Anti-Submarine Warfare, we spent our time flying around Cuba, as Dr. Fidel Castro had just converted that island into a Communistic paradise. I spent many a day in sick bay, with cases of tropical boils. This was despite access to modern medicine and fresh water showers daily. I empathize with those Americans who had to live in terrible tropical conditions in order to carry the war to the enemy. The tropical jungle is a terrible place to live, and a horrific place to fight a war, to kill the enemy.

And they were the enemy. Dr. Peter Schrijvers has researched a wealth of material: diaries, newspapers, field reports, letter to the folks back home. Sadly, the book lacks much on the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war by the Japanese. If the good doctor had included some of the stories that are presently available concerning the inhumane treatment of prisoners by Japanese forces, then the scales would be balanced. This book, therefore, does not capture the full range of American experience in the Pacific. The author virtually ignores POWs.

Finally, let me say that my son, Sean, graduated from The Catholic University, Washington, DC, in 2000; so I have nothing against graduates of Catholic U.

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