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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790780103321

Autore

Casey Steven

Titolo

When soldiers fall : how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan / / Steven Casey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-19-999801-9

0-19-989039-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages ) : illustrations

Disciplina

355.4/22

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.