Author: United States. Congress. House. Internal SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Hearings on Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas H.R. 1594(clean Bill H.R. 8023), H.R. 278, H.R. 297, H.R. 2691, H.R. 3999, H.R. 6047, Hearings ..., 93-1, May 9 and 10, 1973
Author: United States. Congress. House. Internal SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Hearings on Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas H.R. 1594 (clean Bill H.R. 8023), H.R. 278, H.R. 297, H.R. 2691, H.R. 3999, H.R. 6047
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The League of Wives
Author: Heath Hardage LeePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125016110X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down." — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man "Exhilarating and inspiring." — Elaine Showalter, Washington Post The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves “feminists,” but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom—and to account for missing military men—by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone’s must-read list.
Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Law Books, 1876-1981
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
Book Description
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
CIS/annual
Author: Congressional Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Author: