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17%OFFSusan L. Carruthers - The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace - 9780674545700 - V9780674545700
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The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

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Description for The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace Hardcover. Waged for a just cause, World War II was America's good war. Yet for millions of GIs, the war did not end with the enemy's surrender. From letters, diaries, and memoirs, Susan Carruthers chronicles the intimate thoughts and feelings of ordinary servicemen and women whose difficult mission was to rebuild nations they had recently worked to destroy. Num Pages: 380 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 762.
Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's good war. Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan's surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary servicemen and women who participated--often reluctantly--in the difficult project of rebuilding nations they had so recently worked to destroy. When the war ended, most of the seven million Americans in uniform longed to return to civilian life. Yet many remained ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674545700
SKU
V9780674545700
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About Susan L. Carruthers
Susan L. Carruthers is Professor of History at Rutgers University Newark.

Reviews for The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
Based largely on previously unseen diaries and letters, the book poses the question: was the good war followed by the 'good occupation' of the book's title? As ever, there is no easy answer and from Carruthers's lucid and elegantly written account, a picture emerges of muddled thinking and ill-thought out policies as often well-meaning men and women struggled with the ... Read more

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