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Dissenting POWs : From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today /

"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. W...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Wilber, Tom, 1955- (Auteur), Lembcke, Jerry, 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2021.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.