Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War

by Lee Pennington

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's "long" Second World War (from 1937 to 1945). He maps the terrain of Japanese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801452570
• ISBN13: 9780801452574
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher