Bloody Pacific
Subtitle: American soldiers at war with Japan
By: Peter Schrijvers
Edition: Rev. pbk. ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780230274365
Subjects: Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945; Foreign service; Armed Forces
Description: Based on years of research and countless unpublished diaries and letters, Peter Schrijvers tells the real story of the attitudes and behaviour of American fighting men in the war against Japan.

Sweeping across the battlefields, from the desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Bloody Pacific brings to life the GIs' epic struggle with suffocating wilderness, debilitating diseases and Japanese soldiers who chose death over life --Book Jacket.
Notes: Originally published under title: The GI war against Japan. New York : New York University Press, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271) and index.