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Hardcover Traumatic Defeat: Pows, Mias, and National Mythmaking Book

ISBN: 0700626441

ISBN13: 9780700626441

Traumatic Defeat: Pows, Mias, and National Mythmaking

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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 guilt, and sometimes even reject the reality of defeat itself. Traumatic Defeat takes a close, comparative look at two cases of this kind of mythmaking--in West Germany in the wake of World War II...

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