Craig M. Cameron, Cameron Craig M.

American Samurai

Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941 1951

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the cultural dynamics of ground combat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521525923
• ISBN-10: 0521525926
• Artikelnr.: 21173429

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations, maps and tables
Preface
Introduction: imagery and instrumentality in war
1. Mythic images of the Marines before Pearl Harbour
2. Creating Marine - and a masculine deal
3. Images of the Japanese 'other' defined: guadalcanal and beyond
4. 'Devil dogs' and 'dogfaces': images of the 'self' in Peleliu
5. Okinawa: technology empowers ideology
6. Collapse of the Pacific War images, 1945-1951
7. Rewriting the war
Notes
Selected bibliography.