Traumatic Defeat: Pows, Mias, and National Mythmaking by Patrick Gallagher

Traumatic Defeat: Pows, Mias, and National Mythmaking

Patrick Gallagher

200 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated center on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) to justify the lost struggle, mute national g...

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