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Writing War - Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire (Hardcover)
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Writing War - Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire (Hardcover)
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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, and memoirs, written by Chinese,
Japanese, and American servicemen from 1937 to 1945, the period of
total war in Asia and the Pacific. As he describes conflicts that
have often been overlooked in the history of World War II, Aaron
William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of
modern identity, which is important to our understanding of
history. Any discussion of war responsibility, Moore contends,
requires us first to establish individuals as reasonably
responsible for their actions. Diaries, in which men develop and
assert their identities, prove immensely useful for this task.
Tracing the evolution of diarists' personal identities in
conjunction with their battlefield experience, Moore explores how
the language of the state, mass media, and military affected
attitudes toward war, without determining them entirely. He looks
at how propaganda worked to mobilize soldiers, and where it failed.
And his comparison of the diaries of Japanese and American
servicemen allows him to challenge the assumption that East Asian
societies of this era were especially prone to totalitarianism.
Moore follows the experience of soldiering into the postwar period
as well, and considers how the continuing use of wartime language
among veterans made their reintegration into society more
difficult.
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