Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen WWII by Pennington 2015

The first English-language study of wounded Japanese servicemen and disabled veterans of Japan's long Second World War (1937–1945). Pennington maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare programs, drawing on Japanese-language primary sources and the memoir of a soldier who describes in detail his medical evacuation from a front-line casualty clearing station and his rehabilitation at a military hospital. He documents how, after Japan's defeat, the same men who had been celebrated as "white-robed heroes" during the war became an embarrassment to a society eager to distance itself from its military past — forgotten twice, first by postwar public memory and then by Western historiography. A pioneering contribution to the social history of the Asia-Pacific War.

• Title: Casualties of History
• Subtitle: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War
• Author: Lee K. Pennington
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
• Publication Date: 2015
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing:
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 282
• Illustrations: 8 pages of color plates
• ISBN-13: 978-0801452574
• Language: English
• Dimensions:
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Condition: Very Good
• Notes: Lee K. Pennington is a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.
• Description: The first English-language study of wounded Japanese servicemen and disabled veterans of Japan's long Second World War (1937–1945). Pennington maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare programs, drawing on Japanese-language primary sources and the memoir of a soldier who describes in detail his medical evacuation from a front-line casualty clearing station and his rehabilitation at a military hospital. He documents how, after Japan's defeat, the same men who had been celebrated as "white-robed heroes" during the war became an embarrassment to a society eager to distance itself from its military past — forgotten twice, first by postwar public memory and then by Western historiography. A pioneering contribution to the social history of the Asia-Pacific War.