| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Peter Schrijvers. The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II. New York: New York University Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 320. $45.00.

Peter Schrijvers has crafted a unique study of American cultural attitudes regarding different aspects of the Pacific War. Schrijvers's first book, The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II (1998), was a well-received study of U.S. Army combatants' European experiences. This second volume encompasses attitudes of men and women from all the armed services, who served as support troops or combatants in vastly disparate theaters extending from teeming cities in India to tiny atolls in the central Pacific. In exploring what Americans said about themselves and how they viewed various Asian peoples, the unfamiliar environments in which they lived, and the nature of the enemy, Schrijvers is trying to elucidate not only the story of their victory over the Japanese but "also the tale of the West's defeat in Asia" (p. ix). In his alliterative tripartite division of the book into "Frontier," "Frustration," and "Fury," the author is in many ways more interested in the latter story, which avoids the heavily trod operational approach to the subject. Those looking for yet another triumphalist recapitulation of battles or campaigns will need to go elsewhere. . . .

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