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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Until the Last Man Comes Home
Author: Michael J. Allen
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807895318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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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. Though millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort, POW and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war was not over "until the last man comes home," this small, determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political, cultural, and diplomatic history, Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807895318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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. Though millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort, POW and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war was not over "until the last man comes home," this small, determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political, cultural, and diplomatic history, Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.
Administrative Notes
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Category : Depository libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Depository libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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List of Classes of United States Government Publications Available for Selection by Depository Libraries
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Reference Information Papers
Author: National Archives (U.S.)
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Author: United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Long Road Home
Author: Vernon E. Davis
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ISBN: 9780756718169
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Languages : en
Pages : 613
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The unconventional nature and unusual length of the Vietnam War presented special challenges not only for captured Amer. POWs but also for U.S. gov't. officials and agencies having responsibility for the prisoners' proper treatment and safe return. This is the first detailed, in-depth study of the SE Asia POW experience from Washington's perspective. Covers: the Code of Conduct to legal, med. and public affairs issues. Describes a constant tension as Pentagon, State Dept., and White House officials struggled to reconcile the demands of politics and diplomacy with the increasingly pressing requests of families and needs of the POWs. Based on extensive research in primary sources. Illustrated.
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ISBN: 9780756718169
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Languages : en
Pages : 613
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The unconventional nature and unusual length of the Vietnam War presented special challenges not only for captured Amer. POWs but also for U.S. gov't. officials and agencies having responsibility for the prisoners' proper treatment and safe return. This is the first detailed, in-depth study of the SE Asia POW experience from Washington's perspective. Covers: the Code of Conduct to legal, med. and public affairs issues. Describes a constant tension as Pentagon, State Dept., and White House officials struggled to reconcile the demands of politics and diplomacy with the increasingly pressing requests of families and needs of the POWs. Based on extensive research in primary sources. Illustrated.
Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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American Foreign Policy
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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