03363nam 2200745Ia 450 991081594590332120240516074058.00-585-36209-20-19-535869-41-280-44226-30-19-972928-X1-60129-957-5(CKB)1000000000702359(EBL)716763(OCoLC)475956409(SSID)ssj0000268389(PQKBManifestationID)11208232(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268389(PQKBWorkID)10235581(PQKB)10259541(SSID)ssj0000367350(PQKBManifestationID)12080568(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367350(PQKBWorkID)10419169(PQKB)10667175(MiAaPQ)EBC716763(Au-PeEL)EBL716763(CaPaEBR)ebr10086897(CaONFJC)MIL44226(MiAaPQ)EBC241365(EXLCZ)99100000000070235919921112d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVoices of the Vietnam POWs witnesses to their fight /Craig Howes1st ed.New York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (735 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508680-5 0-19-507630-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Voices of the Vietnam POWs; Introduction: America's Vietnam POWs; I The Code, the Rules, and the Body; 1 The Fighting Man's Code; 2 Camp Authority and the Rules of the Game; 3 Torture and War's Body; II The Official Story and the Big Picture; 4 The Official Story; 5 The Big Picture; III One Man's View; 6 A Prophet Returns to His People; 7 The Story's Other Sides; 8 Keeping the Faith-James Bond Stockdale; Notes; Bibliography; IndexUnsure 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 ofVietnam War, 1961-1975Prisoners and prisons, North VietnameseVietnam War, 1961-1975Personal narratives, AmericanPrisoners of warUnited StatesBiographyPrisoners of warVietnamBiographyVietnam War, 1961-1975Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.Vietnam War, 1961-1975Prisoners of warPrisoners of war973.92/08697BHowes Craig1955-1439599MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815945903321Voices of the Vietnam POWs4043077UNINA