Dissenting POWs : from Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America today

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Dissenting POWs : from Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America today

Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke

Monthly Review Press, c2021

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Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. [161]-165

Filmography: p. [168]-169

Includes index

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