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Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War

2009 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ;ISBN: 0807872725 ;ISBN: 9780807872727 ;ISBN: 9780807832615 ;ISBN: 0807832618 ;EISBN: 9781469605395 ;EISBN: 1469605392 ;EISBN: 9780807895313 ;EISBN: 0807895318 ;OCLC: 489150940 ;LCCallNum: DS559.4.A44 2009

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  • Title:
    Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
  • Author: Allen, Michael J
  • Subjects: 1945–1989 ; 1989 ; 20th Century ; HISTORY ; Influence ; Military ; Missing in action ; Political activists ; Political aspects ; Politics and government ; Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese ; Prisoners of war ; Relations ; United States ; Vietnam ; Vietnam War ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Political aspects
  • 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 Homepresents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 448
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0807872725
    ISBN: 9780807872727
    ISBN: 9780807832615
    ISBN: 0807832618
    EISBN: 9781469605395
    EISBN: 1469605392
    EISBN: 9780807895313
    EISBN: 0807895318
    OCLC: 489150940
    LCCallNum: DS559.4.A44 2009
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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