American Samurai: Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941-1951 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521525923)

Events on the battlefields of the Pacific War were not only outgrowths of technology and tactics, but also products of cultural myth and imagination. American Samurai offers a bold and innovative approach to military history by linking combat activity to cultural images. Marines projected ideas and assumptions about themselves and their enemy onto people and events throughout the war--giving life to formerly abstract myths and ideas and molding their behavior to expectations. This fascinating book concludes by considering what happened to the myths and images and how they have been preserved in American society to the present.

Author: Craig M. Cameron
ISBN-10: 0521525926
ISBN-13: 9780521525923
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2002
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.24w x 0.77d