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The battle over Peleliu : islander, Japanese, and American memories of war /
- Title
- The battle over Peleliu : islander, Japanese, and American memories of war / Stephen C. Murray.
- Author
- Murray, Stephen C., 1945-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- War, memory, and culture
- Subjects
- Historic sites > Conservation and restoration > Palau > Peleliu Island
- Palau > Relations > Japan
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Palau > Peleliu Island
- Collective memory > Palau > Peleliu Island
- United States > Relations > Palau
- Palau > Relations > United States
- Japan > Relations > Palau
- Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944
- Peleliu Island > History
- Peleliu Island > Social life and customs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
- Contents
- Palauan and colonial landscapes -- History, memory, and island landscapes -- Colonial masters and island society -- Peace, war, and a new empire -- Smiling sky, gathering clouds -- War -- Exile, fear, and hunger: Ngaraard, Babeldaob, 1944-1945 -- An island desolated, a trust betrayed, 1946-1994 -- Pursuing memory -- Retrieving the dead -- Remembering a painful victory -- Parallel histories: three peoples' memories of war and loss -- Conclusion: the roots of the plant.
- ISBN
- 9780817318840
- 0817318844
- 9780817388898 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015022948
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library