Voices Of The Vietnam Pows
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Voices Of The Vietnam Pows
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Author : Craig Howes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-09-30
Voices Of The Vietnam Pows written by Craig Howes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 a collective history. He describes how these captives drew upon their national heritage to compose a unified, common story while still in prison, and how individual POWs have responded to this Official Story. Examining what racial, cultural, and political assumptions support this shared Official Story, Howes places the POWs' experiences squarely in the center of American history, and within those larger clashes of opinion and belief which characterized the nation's response to the Vietnam War. The result is an engrossing study of what these captivity narratives can tell us about the POWs, their captors, and America's Vietnam legacy.
Voices From Vietnam
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Author : Michael E. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Release Date : 2014-05-20
Voices From Vietnam written by Michael E. Stevens and has been published by Wisconsin Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-20 with History categories.
An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by 92 wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam. Includes a journal kept by Menasha native Frederic Flom on cigarette wrappers during his final 16 days of captivity — the only known diary smuggled out by a Vietnam prisoner of war.
Dissenting Pows
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Author : Tom Wilber
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-04-22
Dissenting Pows written by Tom Wilber and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with History categories.
A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming-home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. 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 surprising: It wasn’t simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers-versus-enlisted-men standoff. Rather, 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. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war.
Voices Of The Vietnam War
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Author : Terry L. Nau
language : en
Publisher: Stillwater River Publications
Release Date : 2019-08-22
Voices Of The Vietnam War written by Terry L. Nau and has been published by Stillwater River Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with History categories.
Voices of the Vietnam War is an oral history told by the soldiers who fought, and others who were impacted by the fighting halfway around the world, most especially the wives and siblings who waited at home. This book listens to two people who were against the war and had to take their own philosophical stand, often against their own families and friends. The book features chapters personally written by three military veterans. Two wives tell the story of how they waited at home while their husbands fought in Vietnam, relying on letters and television news for information.Decorated combat officer David Christian is the strongest voice in the book, describing his unit's war experiences and then detailing the loss of his brother Doug to Agent Orange-linked cancer. Christian became a leading advocate for veterans' disability pensions and helped gain government approval for Agent Orange benefits.Vietnam War veteran Terry Nau wrote and edited this book, his fifth on the subject. He interviewed soldiers from his artillery unit, high school friends who went to war, and also convinced acquaintances to tell their own story in their own words.
Voices From The Vietnam War
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Author : Xiaobing Li
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2010-06-11
Voices From The Vietnam War written by Xiaobing Li and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-11 with History categories.
The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war.
Captive Warriors
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Author : Sam Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1992
Captive Warriors written by Sam Johnson and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Former fighter pilot recounts his experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Voices From Vietnam
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Author : Richard Burks Verrone
language : en
Publisher: David & Charles
Release Date : 2005-03
Voices From Vietnam written by Richard Burks Verrone and has been published by David & Charles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with History categories.
This is a stunning collection of absorbing and evocative eyewitness accounts of the war in Southeast Asia, America's domestic protests against it, and the costs of the conflict to those who survived it.
Voices From Captivity
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Author : Robert C. Doyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Voices From Captivity written by Robert C. Doyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.
Voices From Vietnam
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Author : Barry Denenberg
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Release Date : 1997-08-01
Voices From Vietnam written by Barry Denenberg and has been published by Scholastic Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-01 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Explains the unique events and practices that shaped the Vietnam War, bringing together the stories of people who experienced it firsthand, as told in their own voices. Reprint.
Yet Another Voice
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Author : Norman A. McDaniel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Yet Another Voice written by Norman A. McDaniel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Biography & Autobiography categories.