Voices of the Vietnam POWs [[electronic resource] ] : witnesses to their fight / / Craig Howes

• Autore: Howes Craig <1955->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (735 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.92/08697; B
• Soggetto topico: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Prisoners of war - United States; Prisoners of war - Vietnam
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Unsure 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 of
• Titolo autorizzato: Voices of the Vietnam POWs
• ISBN: 0-585-36209-2; 0-19-535869-4; 1-280-44226-3; 0-19-972928-X; 1-60129-957-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782773203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II