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.

Prisoners of war--Vietnam--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (735 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam responded by holding tight to their chosen motto, ""Return with Honor."" ""We're giving the American people what they want and badly need--heroes,"" said a Vietnam jungle POW. ""I feel it's our responsibility, our duty to help them where possible shed the idea this war was a waste, useless, as unpopular as it may have been."" 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 explores the development of

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Voices of the Vietnam POWs; Introduction: America's Vietnam POWs; I The Code, the Rules, and the Body; 1 The Fighting Man's Code; 2 Camp Authority and the Rules of the Game; 3 Torture and War's Body; II The Official Story and the Big Picture; 4 The Official Story; 5 The Big Picture; III One Man's View; 6 A Prophet Returns to His People; 7 The Story's Other Sides; 8 Keeping the Faith-James Bond Stockdale; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-585-36209-2

0-19-535869-4

1-280-44226-3

0-19-972928-X

1-60129-957-5

OCLC:

475956409