Writing War : Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire.

Intro -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction: World War, Diary Writing, and the Self -- 1. Talk about Heroes: Military Diaries in the Modern World -- 2. Self- Mobilization and the Discipline of the Battlefield: The Battle for Shanghai and Northern China -- 3. Assembling the "New Order": Reconstitution of Self through Diary Writing -- 4. The Unbearable Likeness of Being: The Transnational Phenomenon of Self-Discipline during the Pacific War -- 5. The Physics of Writing War: Recording the Destruction of the Japanese Empire -- 6. The Consequences of Self-Discipline: Postwar Historical Memory and Veterans' Narratives -- Conclusion: The Peril of Self-Discipline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography of War Diaries -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Writing War examines over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945. As he describes conflicts that have often been overlooked by historians, Aaron William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of modern identity.

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