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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455116003321

Autore

Allen Michael J (Michael Joe), <1974->

Titolo

Until the last man comes home [[electronic resource] ] : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War / / Michael J. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4696-0539-2

0-8078-9531-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Disciplina

959.704/37

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese

Prisoners of war - United States

Political activists - United States

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Missing in action - United States

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Influence

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Political aspects

Electronic books.

United States Relations Vietnam

Vietnam Relations United States

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

United States Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The politics of loss -- Go public : the construction of loss -- For us the war still goes on : the limits of homecoming -- As it has in the past : a short history of oblivion -- Fullest possible accounting : the persistence of the past -- The wilderness years : life after death -- Highest national priority : resurrection and retribution -- Not to close the door, but to open it : the ambiguity of recovery -- Conclusion: This thing has consumed American politics for years.

Sommario/riassunto

Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how



wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. Thoug