When soldiers fall : how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan / / Steven Casey
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| Autore: |
Casey Steven
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| Titolo: |
When soldiers fall : how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan / / Steven Casey
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 pages ) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 355.4/22 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | When soldiers fall |
| ISBN: | 0-19-989039-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453767003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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