Verfasst von:	Wilber, Tom [VerfasserIn]
	Lembcke, Jerry [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Dissenting POWs
Titelzusatz:	from Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America today
Verf.angabe:	Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke
Verlagsort:	New York
Verlag:	Monthly Review Press
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
Umfang:	181 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:	978-1-58367-908-1
	978-1-58367-911-1
	978-1-58367-909-8
Abstract:	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.
	"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"--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781583679081.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (k)USA / Army    / (s)Vietnamkrieg    / (s)Kriegsgefangener    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	NQ 8342
K10plus-PPN:	1751567338