Prisoners of Hope
Author | : Susan Katz Keating |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author asserts that the hopes of loved ones are kept alive by those who would exploit their sorrow.
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Author | : Susan Katz Keating |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author asserts that the hopes of loved ones are kept alive by those who would exploit their sorrow.
Author | : Chimp Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Explores the POW/MIA issue through numerous interviews with soldiers and other notable figures.
Author | : Michael Joe Allen |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807832618 |
Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.
Author | : Barbara Birchim |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2005-05-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1463450923 |
Thirty-five long years and I was still seeking answers. If I could make someone in the government listen to the facts, I knew theyd want to act on them. After all, who wouldnt want to find one of our POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War? IS ANYBODY LISTENING? tells of dignitaries, presidents and those involved with the POW/MIA issue as Ive known it since November 1968 when my husband, a Special Forces officer, became missing-in-action. The pages reveal my feelings and torment during my many trips to Southeast Asia in search of answers, and my frustrations while wandering the halls of Washington D.C. for help. The book was written to show the issues insidious cover-up and my commitment to the truth.
Author | : Howard Bruce Franklin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813520018 |
This paperback edition of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America adds major new material about Ross Perot's role, the 1991-1992 Senate investigation, and illegal operations authorized by Ronald Reagan. "An important and compelling book. . . . Franklin raises and answers all of the hardest questions about an enduring piece of political mythology."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "A calm and thoughtful book on a firestorm of a subject. . . . Intelligent, provocative, and courageous."--Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Sydney Hillel Schanberg |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1597976105 |
The first collection of Sydney Schanberg's work to be published.
Author | : Heath Hardage Lee |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472131770 |
Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves 'feminists', but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom - and to account for missing military men - by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.
Author | : Barbara Birchim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781420837476 |
Thirty-five long years and I was still seeking answers. If I could make someone in the government listen to the facts, I knew they'd want to act on them. After all, who wouldn't want to find one of our POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War? IS ANYBODY LISTENING? tells of dignitaries, presidents and those involved with the POW/MIA issue as I've known it since November 1968 when my husband, a Special Forces officer, became missing-in-action. The pages reveal my feelings and torment during my many trips to Southeast Asia in search of answers, and my frustrations while wandering the halls of Washington D.C.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael J. Allen |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2009-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807895318 |
Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end. Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. Though millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort, POW and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war was not over "until the last man comes home," this small, determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political, cultural, and diplomatic history, Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.