The Remains of War: Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia

by Thomas M. Hawley

Book Overview

The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers' bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material, identified body marks a dramatic change from previous wars, in which circumstantial evidence often sufficed to account for missing casualties. In The Remains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335387
• ISBN13: 9780822335382
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"