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Until the Last Man Comes Home
Michael J. Allen
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Description for Until the Last Man Comes Home
Paperback. Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War Num Pages: 433 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 252 x 29. Weight in Grams: 600.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
433
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807872727
SKU
V9780807872727
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About Michael J. Allen
Michael J. Allen is assistant professor of history at Northwestern University.
Reviews for Until the Last Man Comes Home
A fascinating examination of a long and painful chapter of American history.
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark|""Michael Allen's rich and beautifully written book becomes the new starting point for understanding Vietnam era POW/MIA politics and their centrality to American history over the last four decades. It is a splendid achievement and will serve as a model for the study of the ... Read more
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark|""Michael Allen's rich and beautifully written book becomes the new starting point for understanding Vietnam era POW/MIA politics and their centrality to American history over the last four decades. It is a splendid achievement and will serve as a model for the study of the ... Read more