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Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: Category : Prisoners of war Languages : en Pages : 88
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From the earliest days of our history, Americans have been taken into captivity as a result of armed conflict. As prisoners of war, Americans have endured a variety of conditions from adherence to the conventions of war to unspeakable cruelty and have been exposed to a variety of cultures worldwide. This bibliography lists works that examine and document American POW experiences from the Revolutionary era to the present. It was compiled at the request of the Department of History in support of the Nineteenth Military History Symposium that will he held at the United States Air Force Academy from 14 to 16 November 2000. The bibliography is a selective list of the US Air Force Academy Academic Library's holdings on the indicated topics. Included are books, government documents, journal articles, and reports. Neither newspaper articles nor works of fiction are included.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: Category : Prisoners of war Languages : en Pages : 88
Book Description
From the earliest days of our history, Americans have been taken into captivity as a result of armed conflict. As prisoners of war, Americans have endured a variety of conditions from adherence to the conventions of war to unspeakable cruelty and have been exposed to a variety of cultures worldwide. This bibliography lists works that examine and document American POW experiences from the Revolutionary era to the present. It was compiled at the request of the Department of History in support of the Nineteenth Military History Symposium that will he held at the United States Air Force Academy from 14 to 16 November 2000. The bibliography is a selective list of the US Air Force Academy Academic Library's holdings on the indicated topics. Included are books, government documents, journal articles, and reports. Neither newspaper articles nor works of fiction are included.
Author: John G. Hubbell Publisher: Dissertation.com ISBN: 9780595138883 Category : Prisoners of war, American Languages : en Pages : 0
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"With the first page the book explodes...a story of fortitude and patriotism to inspire generations of Americans to come." —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin "It's to our experience as Blackstone is to the law." —Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.), attorney, former POW and Medal of Honor winner
Author: Sarah Kovner Publisher: ISBN: 067473761X Category : Languages : en Pages : 337
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Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Author: Tom Wilber Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1583679103 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 182
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A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming-home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. 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 surprising: It wasn’t simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers-versus-enlisted-men standoff. Rather, 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. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war.
Author: Melissa Amateis Marsh Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625849559 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
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During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POWs as "evil Nazis." To them, they were ordinary men and very human. And while their stay was not entirely free from conflict, many former captives returned to the Cornhusker State to begin new lives after the cessation of hostilities. Drawing on first-person accounts from soldiers, former POWs and Nebraska residents, as well as archival research, Melissa Marsh delves into the neglected history of Nebraska's POW camps.
Author: Greg Eanes Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781983523588 Category : Soldiers Languages : en Pages : 482
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"Captured, Not Conquered is a survey history of the American prisoner of war experience in the First World War (1914-1918). Retired Air Force Colonel Greg Eanes details the Imperial German Army's treatment of American prisoners of war to include those Americans captured while serving with French, British and Canadian units and the merchant marines. The author documents over 100 Great War escapes involving American warfighters. Also examined are German intelligence interrogation tactics, techniques and procedures and American POW resistance to German exploitation attempts. The work also addresses POW leadership and organization where it was most desperately needed. Colonel Eanes brings forth many years of professional expertise in the field of POW/MIA intelligence and operations. He provides readers context to the American Great War POW experience while highlighting many lessons still valuable to U.S. fighting forces." --
Author: Robert C. Doyle Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.
Author: Juan David Coronado Publisher: MSU Press ISBN: 1628953217 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military and civilian landscapes. Chicanos were disproportionately “grunts” (infantry), who were more likely to be killed when captured, while pilots and officers were more likely to be both white and held as POWs for negotiating purposes. A fascinating look at the Vietnam War era from a Chicano perspective, “I’m Not Gonna Die in this Damn Place”: Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War gives voice to the Mexican American POWs. The stories of these men and their families provide insights to the Chicano Vietnam War experience, while also adding tremendously to the American POW story. This book is an important read for academics and military enthusiasts alike.
Author: Alex Kershaw Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0306815966 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 324
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The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under the command of twenty-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck were huddled in their foxholes trying desperately to keep warm. Suddenly, the early morning silence was broken by the roar of a huge artillery bombardment and the dreadful sound of approaching tanks. Hitler had launched his bold and risky offensive against the Allies-his "last gamble"-and the small American platoon was facing the main thrust of the entire German assault. Vastly outnumbered, they repulsed three German assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing over five hundred German soldiers and defending a strategically vital hill. Only when Bouck's men had run out of ammunition did they surrender to the enemy. As POWs, Bouck's platoon began an ordeal far worse than combat-survive in captivity under trigger-happy German guards, Allied bombing raids, and a daily ration of only thin soup. In German POW camps, hundreds of captured Americans were either killed or died of disease, and most lost all hope. But the men of Bouck's platoon survived-miraculously, all of them. Once again in vivid, dramatic prose, Alex Kershaw brings to life the story of some of America's little-known heroes-the story of America's most decorated small unit, an epic story of courage and survival in World War II, and one of the most inspiring stories in American history.
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Author: John G. Hubbell
Author: E. Bartlett Kerr
Author: Sarah Kovner
Author: Tom Wilber
Author: Melissa Amateis Marsh
Author: Greg Eanes
Author: Robert C. Doyle
Author: Juan David Coronado
Author: Alex Kershaw