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



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Autore: Allen Michael J (Michael Joe), <1974-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Until the last man comes home : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War / / Michael J. Allen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
Disciplina: 959.704/37
959.70437
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Relations Vietnam
Vietnam Relations United States
United States Politics and government 1945-1989
United States Politics and government 1989-
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
Titolo autorizzato: Until the last man comes home  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0539-2
0-8078-9531-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816519403321
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