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Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Lee K. Pennington is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p> 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 military medicine and social welfare practices an
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lee K. Pennington
- Publisher
- Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801455629
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Veterans, Pacific Theater
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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