Voices of the Vietnam POWs : witnesses to their fight / Craig Howes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howes, Craig, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.

Prisoners of war.

United States.

Prisoners of war--Vietnam--Biography.

Vietnam.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

vi, 295 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

In the first book to explore the entire range of memoirs, biographies, and group histories published since America's Vietnam POWs returned home, Craig Howes describes how these captives drew upon their national heritage to compose a collective history while still in prison, and how individual POWs have responded to this Official Story. Examining what racial, cultural, and political assumptions support this shared Official Story, Howes places the POWs' experiences squarely in the center of American history, and within those larger clashes of opinion and belief which characterized the nation's response to the Vietnam War. The result is an engrossing study of what these captivity narratives can tell us about the POWs, their jailor, and America's Vietnam legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195076303

OCLC:

27069201