A study of the cultural dynamics of ground combat.
List of illustrations, maps and tables; Preface; Introduction: imagery and instrumentality in war; 1. Mythic images of the Marines before Pearl Harbour; 2. Creating Marine - and a masculine deal; 3. Images of the Japanese 'other' defined: guadalcanal and beyond; 4. 'Devil dogs' and 'dogfaces': images of the 'self' in Peleliu; 5. Okinawa: technology empowers ideology; 6. Collapse of the Pacific War images, 1945-1951; 7. Rewriting the war; Notes; Selected bibliography.