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Friendly fire : American images of the Vietnam War /
Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a si...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of ""friendly fire"" from multiple. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-214) index. |
| ISBN: | 142374571X 9781423745716 9780195116038 0195116038 9786610655229 6610655227 9780195349627 0195349628 1280655224 9781280655227 0198027583 9780198027584 1602567506 9781602567504 0199881650 9780199881659 |