Voices of the Vietnam POWs

Voices of the Vietnam POWs
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780195358698
ISBN-13 : 0195358694
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Book Synopsis Voices of the Vietnam POWs by : Craig Howes

Download or read book Voices of the Vietnam POWs written by Craig Howes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a collective history. He describes how these captives drew upon their national heritage to compose a unified, common story while still in prison, and how individual POWs have responded to this Official Story. Examining what racial, cultural, and political assumptions support this shared Official Story, Howes places the POWs' experiences squarely in the center of American history, and within those larger clashes of opinion and belief which characterized the nation's response to the Vietnam War. The result is an engrossing study of what these captivity narratives can tell us about the POWs, their captors, and America's Vietnam legacy.


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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." "