Vietnam's prodigal heroes : American deserters, international protest, European exile, and amnesty
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Bibliographic Information
Vietnam's prodigal heroes : American deserters, international protest, European exile, and amnesty
(War and society in modern American history)
Lexington Books, c2021
- : cloth
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 329-352
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the critical role of desertion in the international Vietnam War debate. Paul Benedikt Glatz traces American deserters' odyssey of exile and activism in Europe, Japan, and North America to demonstrate how unprecedented levels of desertion in the US military changed the traditional image of the deserter.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Reconstructing a Marginalized History
Chapter 1: Stepping Out: The Appearance of American Deserters and the International Debate on War
Refusal
Chapter 2: The Deserters' 1968: Exile Organizing, Politicization and the Struggle for Recognition
Chapter 3: Asylum and Exile: Consolidation of the Swedish Sanctuary, Community Building and Exile
Culture
Chapter 4: Amnesty: Deserters and the Debate over Clemency, Exoneration, and Vindication of Vietnam
War Resisters
Conclusion: History, Memory and Activism
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