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->
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| Titolo: |
Until the last man comes home : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War / / Michael J. Allen
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0539-2 |
| 0-8078-9531-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816519403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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