The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era

Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Exploring representations of servicemen in the popular press, government propaganda, museum exhibits, literature, film, and television, Andrew Huebner traces the evolution of a storied American icon — the combat soldier.

Huebner challenges the pervasive assumption that Vietnam brought drastic changes in portrayals of the American...