UID:
almafu_9959230354702883
Format:
1 online resource (417 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-983149-1
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0-19-025237-5
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1-283-09916-0
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9786613099167
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0-19-970099-0
Content:
Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians. And yet Americans de
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-993401-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-538121-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=694057
