Traumatic defeat : POWs, MIAs, and national mythmaking /

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 United States after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national myth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gallagher, Patrick, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Subjects:	Prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century. Loss (Psychology) > Political aspects > Case studies. War > Psychological aspects > Case studies. Conspiracy theories > Case studies. Collective memory > Case studies. World War, 1939-1945 > Missing in action > Germany. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Russian. Prisoners of war > United States > History > 20th century. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Missing in action > United States.

Table of Contents:

Germany's war on the Eastern Front, and the origins of its secret camp myth
The short-lived German secret camp myth
Missing Americans in Southeast Asia and the origins of POW/MIA activism
Radicalization of POW/MIA advocacy and the emergence of the secret camp myth
High-water mark of the secret camp myth
Conclusion.