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Dissenting POWs : from Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America today / Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilber, Tom, 1955- author.
- Lembcke, Jerry, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Prisoners and prisons.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Prisoners of war--United States--History--20th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- Ex-prisoners of war.
- History.
- United States.
- Ex-prisoners of war--United States--History--20th century.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
- Nhà tù Hỏa Lò (Hanoi, Vietnam).
- Protest movements.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Dissenting Prisoners of War : from Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America today
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Looking into the underlying factional divide between pro-war "hardliners" and anti-war "dissidents" among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the Hero-POW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was that it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their pre-captive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts, like John McCain, moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Forgotten Voices from Hoa Lo Prison: Dissent in the Hero-Prisoner Story
- Profiles of Dissent: Senior Officers
- Profiles of Dissent: "The Peace Committee" of Enlisted POWs
- The Manchurian Candidate Stalks the Homeland: Hollywood Scripts the POW Narrative
- Damaged, Duped, and Left Behind: Displacing POW Dissent
- A Captive Nation: POWs as Grist for the American Myth
- The Heritage of Conscience: From the American War in Vietnam to America Today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781583679081
- 1583679081
- 9781583679098
- 158367909X
- OCLC:
- 1201653067
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