Writing Japan's war in New Guinea : the diary of Tamura Yoshikazu /

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Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even meagre amenities and faced with the spectre of debilitating illness and starvation, this solitary soldier commenced a diary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eaves-Young, Victoria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Asian history.
Temas:
Tamura, Yoshikazu > Diaries.
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese.
Soldiers > Japan > Diaries.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Nouvelle-Guinée.
Diaries, letters and journals.
Second World War.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Military campaigns
Military participation > Japanese
Soldiers
Japan
New Guinea
War diary, Japanese soldiers, kokutai, Second World War, Japanese Empire, kokutai.
Diary
diaries.
Diaries
Personal narratives > Japanese
Diaries.
Journaux intimes.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Prologue
  • Author's Note
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Setting the Scene
  • 2. An Extraordinary Diary of an Ordinary Soldier
  • 3. Priming the Country for War: Imperial Rescripts as Fortifiers of the Kokutai
  • 4. Out of Landscape
  • 5. The Landscape of Deprivation
  • 6. Creating an Idealized World
  • 7. Re-creating an Emotionally Accommodating Landscape
  • 8. Death as Man's True Calling
  • 9. Challenges to a Resolve to Die
  • 10. Reconciling Death
  • Epilogue
  • List of Images and Maps
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Abbreviations for sources held at the Australian War Memorial (Canberra, ACT)
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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