The Good Fight Continues

“A brilliant contribution to intercultural studies. It imaginatively combines the ‘new’ military history with an older American Studies research and writing technique. Not only will the book attract a wide range of readers, it should also stimulate scholars to adopt this approach to many other topics in cultural studies.” -William R. Childs, author of “Trucking and the Public Interest”

“One of the most remarkable books I have ever come across. A significant and fascinating contribution to the field. The Crash of Ruin should appeal to a large audience of readers interested in World War II history.”-Edward M. Coffman, author of The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I”

“The Crash of Ruin offers the reader both intellectual and emotional rewards… . Its narrative power makes it a wonderful read.” -Susan M. Hartmann, The Ohio State University

“This terrifying, remarkable work examines the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of U.S. fighting men in the Pacific theater during World War II. Imaginatively drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, military reports, and contemporary psychological assessments, Schrijvers reveals the social, historical, and emotional roots of the peculiarly frenzied and merciless war…this temperate study of murderous fury is among the most unsettling books I’ve read in years.”-“The Atlantic Monthly”,

Peter N. Carroll is Chair of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War andThe Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (NYU Press, 2006), co-edited with Michael Nash and Melvin Small.

Michael Nash is the director of New York University’s Tamiment Library, a special collection documenting the history of labor and radical politics that administers the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.

Melvin Small is Distinguished Professor of History at Wayne State University and chair of the university’s Abraham Lincoln Brigade Scholarship Fund. His most recent book is At the Water’s Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War.