When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan

by Steven Casey

Call it the Vietnam Syndrome or Black Hawk Down blowback. It's the standard assumption that Americans won't tolerate combat casualties, that a rising body count lowers support for war. But that's not true, argues historian Steven Casey; even worse, this assumption damages democracy. Fearing a backlash, the military has routinely distorted its casualty reports in order to hide the true cost of war.

When Soldiers Fall takes a new look at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199890382
• ISBN13: 9780199890385
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"