Titlebook: Bloody Pacific; American Soldiers at Peter Schrijvers Book 2010Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

Keshan-disease

Failure Mode and the Fundamental Equation,While disembarking on Christmas Island in 1942, personnel of the 204th General Hospital were mockingly welcomed by veteran American truck drivers. “But never fear,” they yelled, “by the time your replacements show up a year from now, you’ll look and act like the natives who inhabit this God forsaken island.”

COLON

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4352-0The more the far western frontier frustrated American soldiers’ control, the more it fueled their fury. The more Asia and the Pacific’s nature and people demonstrated a capacity to absorb violence, the more GIs abandoned themselves to destroying their environment before it would succeed in destroying them.

Entrancing

Limit Cycles of Differential EquationsThe Japanese called it .. In Western parlance, the US War Department’s . lectured, the closest equivalent to this alien concept was “spirit,” something the Asian opponent regarded as a “mystic virtue which can overcome material weapons in profane hands.”

外星人

Land of MythsFrontiersmen and immigrants: nearly every white GI boarding a ship bound for the Pacific could trace his origins as an American to such ancestors. It was, therefore, almost inevitable that the experience of strange vessels, endless seas, and daunting destinations should trigger flashbacks of both groups of predecessors among American soldiers.

Muffle

秘密會議

Jungle FeverWhile disembarking on Christmas Island in 1942, personnel of the 204th General Hospital were mockingly welcomed by veteran American truck drivers. “But never fear,” they yelled, “by the time your replacements show up a year from now, you’ll look and act like the natives who inhabit this God forsaken island.”

AMEND

companion

A Fist of SteelThe Japanese called it .. In Western parlance, the US War Department’s . lectured, the closest equivalent to this alien concept was “spirit,” something the Asian opponent regarded as a “mystic virtue which can overcome material weapons in profane hands.”

Macronutrients

Book 2010Latest editionBased on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs‘ experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life.

Expurgate

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230292307bibliography; China; empire; India; Japan