| Description |
xiii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations, maps and tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Imagery and Instrumentality in War -- 1. Mythic Images of the Marines before Pearl Harbour -- 2. Creating Marine - And a Masculine Deal -- 3. Images of the Japanese 'Other' Defined: Guadalcanal and Beyond -- 4. 'Devil Dogs' and 'Dogfaces' : Images of the 'Self' in Peleliu -- 5. Okinawa: Technology Empowers Ideology -- 6. Collapse of the Pacific War Images, 1945-1951 -- 7. Rewriting the War -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography |
| Analysis |
Soldiers |
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Wars Psychology |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1990 |
| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 1st.
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War -- Mythology.
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War -- Psychological aspects.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
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| LC no. |
93010530 |
| ISBN |
0521441684 (hardback) |
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0521525926 (paperback) |
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