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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990542
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American P.O.W. experience written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John G. Hubbell
Publisher : Dissertation.com
ISBN 13 : 9780595138883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book P.O.W. written by John G. Hubbell and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the first page the book explodes...a story of fortitude and patriotism to inspire generations of Americans to come." —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin "It's to our experience as Blackstone is to the law." —Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.), attorney, former POW and Medal of Honor winner
Author : E. Bartlett Kerr
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surrender and Survival written by E. Bartlett Kerr and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience of American POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945.
Author : Melissa Amateis Marsh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625849559
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nebraska POW Camps written by Melissa Amateis Marsh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POWs as "evil Nazis." To them, they were ordinary men and very human. And while their stay was not entirely free from conflict, many former captives returned to the Cornhusker State to begin new lives after the cessation of hostilities. Drawing on first-person accounts from soldiers, former POWs and Nebraska residents, as well as archival research, Melissa Marsh delves into the neglected history of Nebraska's POW camps.
Author : Jon Couch
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467060429
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Caged Heroes written by Jon Couch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Bartlett Kerr
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surrender and Survival written by E. Bartlett Kerr and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience of American POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945.
Author : Ralph E. Gaither
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972887267
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book With God in a POW Camp written by Ralph E. Gaither and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commander Ralph Gaither's look back at his 7 years as a Vietnam POW. Book was first published in 1973 and sold approximately 100,000 copies. Republished in 2004 with minor revisions in hopes of supporting our current military situations around the world.
Author : Amy Shively Hawk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162157556X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton written by Amy Shively Hawk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Senator John McCain. In 1967, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home his girlfriend moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively contemplated suicide. Yet somehow he found hope and the will to survive--and he became determined to help his fellow POWs. In a newspaper interview several years after his release, Shively said, "I had the opportunity to be captured, the opportunity to be interrogated, the opportunity to be tortured and the experience of answering questions under torture. It was an extremely humiliating experience. I felt sorry for myself. But I learned the hard way life isn't fair. Life is only what you make of it." Written by Shively's stepdaughter Amy Hawk--whose mother Nancy ultimately reunited with and married Shively in a triumphant love story--and based on extensive audio recordings and Shively's own journals, Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton is a haunting, riveting portrayal of life as an American prisoner of war trapped on the other side of the world.
Author : Tom Wilber
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679103
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dissenting POWs written by Tom Wilber and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John C. Shively
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871952947
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Profiles in Survival written by John C. Shively and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2011 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of seven men and one woman from Indiana who survived the horrors of captivity under the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II are captured in vivid detail. These Hoosiers were ordered to surrender following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in 1942. It was the largest surrender of American armed forces in U.S. history and the beginning of three years of hell starting with the infamous Bataan Death March, facing brutal conditions in POW camps in the Philippines, and horrific journeys to Japan for some onboard what came to be known as “hellships.” Former Indiana governor Edgar D. Whitcomb, one of those featured in the book, notes that the American prisoners had to endure “unimaginable misery and brutality at the hands of sadistic Japanese guards,” as they were routinely beaten and many were executed for the most minor offenses, or for mere sport. In addition to Whitcomb, those profiled include Irvin Alexander, Harry Brown, William Clark, James Duckworth, Eleanor Garen, Melvin McCoy, and Hugh Sims.
