Journal article
Book Review: Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire by Aaron William Moore
The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.40(2), pp.403-406
2014
Abstract
Aaron William Moore’s study of some 200 diaries of Japanese, Chinese, and U.S. soldiers participating in the Asia-Pacific War is a tour de force. To have brought together and analyzed so many sources, written in three languages and now widely scattered, is impressive enough. Few scholars writing in English can deal expertly with documents in both Chinese and Japanese, and researchers on World War II who cannot read either or both of these languages will be grateful to Moore. The author’s larger contribution, however, is his analysis of the experience of combat, occupation, victory, and defeat in the conflict of 1937–45 from the soldiers’ point of view...
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- Title
- Book Review: Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire by Aaron William Moore
- Authors/Creators
- S. Wilson (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.40(2), pp.403-406
- Publisher
- Society for Japanese Studies
- Identifiers
- 991005543274007891
- Copyright
- © 2014 Society for Japanese Studies
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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