{"product_id":"until-the-last-man-comes-home-pows-mias-and-the-unending-vietnam-war-9780807872727","title":"Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs  MIAs  and the Unending Vietnam War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers  American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before  and long after  the wars official end.  Throughout the wars last years and in the decades since  Allen argues  the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. Though millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort  POW and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war was not over until the last man comes home  this small  determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that POW\/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important  he explains  POW\/MIA families disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political  cultural  and diplomatic history  Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652000571445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807872725","price":34.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807872727.jpg?v=1781848103","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/until-the-last-man-comes-home-pows-mias-and-the-unending-vietnam-war-9780807872727","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}