Traumatic Defeat : POWs, MIAs, and National Mythmaking /

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"Traumatic Defeat is a comparative study of wartime and postwar Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) activism and politics in Germany after World War II and the US after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national mythology...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gallagher, Patrick, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War > Psychological aspects.
Prisoners of war.
Missing in action.
Conspiracy theories.
Collective memory.
HISTORY > Military > Vietnam War.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Disparus au combat > États-Unis.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Prisonniers et prisons des Nord-Vietnamiens.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Disparus au combat > Allemagne.
Memoire collective > Études de cas.
Theories du complot > Études de cas.
Guerre > Aspect psychologique > Études de cas.
Perte (Psychologie) > Aspect politique > Études de cas.
Prisonniers de guerre > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Missing in action > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.
Prisoners of war > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Missing in action > Germany.
Collective memory > Case studies.
Conspiracy theories > Case studies.
War > Psychological aspects > Case studies.
Loss (Psychology) > Political aspects > Case studies.
Prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century.
United States.
Germany.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:"Traumatic Defeat is a comparative study of wartime and postwar Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) activism and politics in Germany after World War II and the US after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national mythology develops, derived from POW/MIA activism and the belief that substantial numbers of MIAs continue to survive in secret captivity after war's end. He refers to this phenomenon as the "secret camp myth," after the covert facilities in which these missing men supposedly survive. Gallagher demonstrates that these two parallel cases of national trauma over prisoners and the missing demonstrate how wars can breed mythologies that, if not satisfied, can take on lives of their own and come to dominate national conversations on the history of warfare, aftermath, and defeat."--Provided by publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780700626458

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