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Cold days in hell : American POWs in Korea / William C. Latham Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Latham, William C. (William Clark), 1961-
- Series:
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 141.
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 141
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons, North Korean.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Prisoners of war--Korea (North).
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison camps in the Yalu River Valley.Cold Days in Hell provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors and the rules that should g
- Contents:
- The summer soldiers
- The tide turns
- The death march
- The warning
- Home by Christmas
- The reservoir
- The deadly winter
- Spring 1951
- The pilots' war
- Mutual suspicion
- The pawns
- Freedom and recrimination.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-751-2
- OCLC:
- 829459984
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