AMERICAN SAMURAI

Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division, 1941~1951

Craig M. Cameron

NEW COPY. First edition. Dust jacket in mylar protector. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index, 297 pages.

NEW COPY. First edition. Dust jacket in mylar protector. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index, 297 pages. "Focusing specifically on the First Marine Division, this study draws on a broad range of approaches to its subject. The book begins with a look at the legacy of the Marine Corps on the eve of Pearl Harbor, and then turns to gender studies to shed light on the methods of "making" marines. At the heart of the bbook are close examinations of how three broad categories of myth and imagination directly affected the First Division's campaigns on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and Okinawa. The study concludes by considering what happened to the myths and images of the Pacific War in the Korean War, and how they have been preserved in American Society to the present."

Craig M. Cameron is Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps in May 1980, and served on active duty from 1980 to 1984.

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