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Pages: 389
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-14 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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Language: en
Pages: 436
Pages: 436
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fahey was a 24-year-old garbage-truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 3, 1942, and became a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. During almost
Language: en
Pages: 253
Pages: 253
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
A “wide-ranging and thoughtful” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-25 - Publisher: Springer
Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theat
Language: en
Pages: 405
Pages: 405
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least