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001481753 24514 $$aThe Good Occupation :$$bAmerican Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace /$$cSusan L. Carruthers.
001481753 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2017]
001481753 264_4 $$c©2016
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001481753 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tIntroduction. The Troublesome "O Word" --$$t1. Preparing to Occupy --$$t2. "The Life of Conquerors" --$$t3. Staging Victory in Asia --$$t4. From V- E to VD --$$t5. Displaced and Displeased Persons --$$t6. Demobilization by Demoralization --$$t7. Getting without Spending --$$t8. Domesticating Occupation --$$tConclusion. The "Good Occupation"? --$$tAbbreviations --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex
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001481753 520__ $$aWaged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's "good war." Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan's surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary servicemen and women who participated-often reluctantly-in the difficult project of rebuilding nations they had so recently worked to destroy. When the war ended, most of the seven million Americans in uniform longed to return to civilian life. Yet many remained on active duty, becoming the "after-army" tasked with bringing order and justice to societies ravaged by war. Susan Carruthers shows how American soldiers struggled to deal with unprecedented catastrophe among millions of displaced refugees and concentration camp survivors while negotiating the inevitable tensions that arose between victors and the defeated enemy. Drawing on thousands of unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs, she reveals the stories service personnel told themselves and their loved ones back home in order to make sense of their disorienting and challenging postwar mission. The picture Carruthers paints is not the one most Americans recognize today. A venture undertaken by soldiers with little appetite for the task has crystallized, in the retelling, into the "good occupation" of national mythology: emblematic of the United States' role as a bearer of democracy, progress, and prosperity. In real time, however, "winning the peace" proved a perilous business, fraught with temptation and hazard.
001481753 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
001481753 546__ $$aIn English.
001481753 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
001481753 650_0 $$aReconstruction (1939-1951)$$vPersonal narratives, American.
001481753 650_0 $$aSoldiers$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
001481753 650_7 $$aHISTORY / Military / World War II.$$2bisacsh
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