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The more the far western frontier frustrated American soldiers’ control, the more it fueled their fury. The more Asia and the Pacific’s nature and people demonstrated a capacity to absorb violence, the more GIs abandoned themselves to destroying their environment before it would succeed in destroying them.
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© 2002 Peter Schrijvers
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Schrijvers, P. (2002). Human Rage. In: The GI War Against Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505278_9
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