Writing war : soldiers record the Japanese Empire / Aaron William Moore.

Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of the Second World War in Europe but have paid little attention to personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. Writing War seeks to remedy this imbalance by examining over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, an...

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Main Author: Moore, Aaron William, 1977-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Introduction: World War, diary writing, and the self -- Talk about heroes: military diaries in the modern world -- Self-mobilization and the discipline of the battlefield: the battle for Shanghai and northern China -- Assembling the "new order": reconstitution of self through diary writing -- The unbearable likeness of being: the transnational phenomenon of self-discipline during the Pacific War -- The physics of writing war: recording the destruction of the Japanese Empire -- The consequences of self-discipline: postwar historical memory and veterans' narratives -- Conclusion: the peril of self-discipline. 
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