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UNINA9910453767003321 |
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Casey Steven |
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When soldiers fall : how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan / / Steven Casey |
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Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 pages ) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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Casualty aversion (Military science) - United States |
Public opinion - United States |
Mass media and war - United States |
War casualties - United States - History - 20th century |
War casualties - United States - History - 21st century |
War casualties - United States - Public opinion |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Censorship and the first casualty controversy: World War I, 1917-1918 -- Bad news in the "good war": World War II, 1941-1943 -- The price of victory: World War II, 1944-1945 -- Partisanship and the police action: the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Vietnam: the escalating war, 1961-1968 -- Vietnam: de-escalation and defeat, 1969-1989 -- Gulf Wars: Iraq and Afghanistan, 1990-2011. |
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When Soldiers Fall traces the history of American combat losses and the ways in which the government has reported casualties from WWI to the current War on Terror. |
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