CASUALTIES OF HISTORY: WOUNDED JAPANESE SERVICEMEN AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Book ID/图书代码： 03360013B66132
English Summary/英文概要： 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 and establishes the similarities and differences that existed between Japanese and Western physical, occupational, and spiritual rehabilitation programs for war-wounded servicemen, notably amputees. To exemplify the experience of these wounded soldiers, Pennington draws on the memoir of a Japanese soldier who describes in gripping detail his medical evacuation from a casualty clearing station on the front lines and his medical convalescence at a military hospital.
Moving from the hospital to the home front, Pennington documents the prominent roles adopted by disabled veterans in mobilization campaigns designed to rally popular support for the war effort. Following Japan’s defeat in August 1945, U.S. Occupation forces dismantled the social welfare services designed specifically for disabled military personnel, which brought profound consequences for veterans and their dependents. Using a wide array of written and visual historical sources, Pennington tells a tale that until now has been neglected by English-language scholarship on Japanese society. He gives us a uniquely Japanese version of the all-too-familiar story of soldiers who return home to find their lives (and bodies) remade by combat.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1937七月日本在中国的军事侵略升级后，数千名受伤的军人返回日本。1939年日本扩大战争后，成千上万的人都回家了。在《人员伤亡的历史》中，李•潘宁顿首次讲述了日本伤兵在英国的经历和日本“漫长”的二战（1937～1945）中的残疾老兵。他将日本的军事医学和社会福利实践的领域范围进行比对，并建立了日本和西方的身体，职业和战争中受伤军人的精神康复计划，尤其是截肢者之间存在的相似性和差异性。为了举例证明这些受伤士兵的经历，潘宁顿借鉴了日本士兵的回忆录，其中描述了他从战线上的一个急症站医疗撤离的扣人心弦的细节，以及他在一家军事医院的医疗康复。
从医院回家前，潘宁顿记录了残疾的退伍老兵在意在团结民众支持战争的动员活动中的突出作用。日本在1945年八月战败后，美国占领军强力废除了专为残疾军人设立的社会福利服务，这给退伍军人和他们的家属带来了深远的影响。潘宁顿采用广泛的书面材料和看得见的历史来源，讲述了一个直到现在依然被英语语言学者所忽视的关于日本社会的故事。他给我们带来了士兵太过熟悉的日本版本的故事，他们回到家寻找被战斗改造过的生活（和身体）。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“《人员伤亡的历史》是一本了不起的书。李•潘宁顿的书展现了二战期间日本残疾退伍军人广泛的社会历史及其形成日本在战争和战败中的新面貌的后果。潘宁顿把注意力集中于那些最直接的受害者以及日本现代战争机器的捐助者——以及活着出来讲述只要有人愿意听的故事。潘宁顿以敏感和确定的手将在日本战争中受伤的人定位于，用对战争尤其是国内的革新性反映所告知及被告知的社会，政治和文化关系网络的中心。”——弗朗西斯卡•撒拉弗，波士顿学院，《日本的战争记忆与社会政治，1945–2005》的作者。
"Casualties of History is a terrific book. Lee K. Pennington’s wide-ranging social history of Japanese disabled veterans during World War II and its aftermath affords a fresh look at Japan in war and defeat. Pennington focuses his attention on those who were arguably the most immediate victims as well as benefactors of Japan’s modern war machine—and lived to tell the tale, as far as people cared to listen. With a sensitive, sure hand, Pennington locates Japan’s war-injured men at the center of a web of social, political, and cultural relations that informed and were informed by innovative responses to war, especially on the home front."—Franziska Seraphim, Boston College, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
About the Author/作者介绍： 李•潘宁顿是美国海军学院历史系副教授。
Lee K. Pennington is Associate Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy.
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