The good occupation: American soldiers and the hazards of peace
Waged 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's and Japan's surrenders. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to pos...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Waged 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's and Japan's surrenders. 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 Drawing on thousands of unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs, she reveals the stories service personnel told themselves and their loved ones back home in order to make sense of their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. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 386 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780674545700 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
INTRODUCTION: THE TROUBLESOME O-WORD
PREPARING TO OCCUPY
THE LIFE OF CONQUERORS
STAGING VICTORY IN ASIA
FROM V-E TO VD
DISPLACED AND DISPLEASED PERSONS
DEMOBILIZATION BY DEMORALIZATION
GETTING WITHOUT SPENDING
DOMESTICATING OCCUPATION
CONCLUSION: THE GOOD OCCUPATION ?
DIESES SCHRIFTSTCK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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| spelling | Carruthers, Susan L. 1967- Verfasser (DE-588)1012242358 aut The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace Susan L. Carruthers First printing Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2016 386 Seiten Illustrationen txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Waged 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's and Japan's surrenders. 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. Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1945-1952 gnd rswk-swf Außenpolitik Geschichte Reconstruction (1939-1951) Personal narratives, American Soldiers United States History 20th century Erleben (DE-588)4134678-6 gnd rswk-swf Besetzung (DE-588)4006020-2 gnd rswk-swf Soldat (DE-588)4055409-0 gnd rswk-swf USA United States Foreign relations 1945-1953 USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 gnd rswk-swf Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 gnd rswk-swf Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 g Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 g Besetzung (DE-588)4006020-2 s USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Soldat (DE-588)4055409-0 s Erleben (DE-588)4134678-6 s Geschichte 1945-1952 z DE-604 https://www.recensio.net/r/231c70ab3adc4c34be7ebe8b850954fb rezensiert in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XL (2018), 1, S. 169-174 Rezension LoC Fremddatenuebernahme application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029362155&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace |
| title_auth | The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace |
| title_exact_search | The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace |
| title_full | The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace Susan L. Carruthers |
| title_fullStr | The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace Susan L. Carruthers |
| title_full_unstemmed | The good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of peace Susan L. Carruthers |
| title_short | The good occupation |
| title_sort | the good occupation american soldiers and the hazards of peace |
| title_sub | American soldiers and the hazards of peace |
| topic | Außenpolitik Geschichte Reconstruction (1939-1951) Personal narratives, American Soldiers United States History 20th century Erleben (DE-588)4134678-6 gnd Besetzung (DE-588)4006020-2 gnd Soldat (DE-588)4055409-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Außenpolitik Geschichte Reconstruction (1939-1951) Personal narratives, American Soldiers United States History 20th century Erleben Besetzung Soldat USA United States Foreign relations 1945-1953 Deutschland Japan |
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