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Heroes Behind Barbed Wire

Author : Kenneth K. Hansen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787208745
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Heroes Behind Barbed Wire written by Kenneth K. Hansen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind barbed wire in Korea, 88,000 heroic Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war wrote an unforgettable account of their disillusionment with communism. This is the simple and moving story of their resolute decision to remain on freedom’s side of the Bamboo Curtain, rather than accept repatriation to their communist homelands, vividly recounted here by a first-hand observer, the former Chief of Psychological Warfare of the Far East Command. The story begins before the Korean armistice, in the prison compounds maintained by the United Nations Command on Koje Island. Here, humane and thoughtful treatment proved a more potent weapon than the communists’ brainwashing methods. The prisoners were carefully screened; only those who declared they would forcibly resist repatriation were admitted to the non-communist camps. Inside the camps, even though behind barbed wire, these men found a greater freedom of opportunity than they had been allowed in their communist homelands. They learned to read and write, studied agriculture and learned useful trades; and enjoy sports and recreation. Then, from Oct. to Dec. 1953, under the terms of the armistice, the anti-communist prisoners faced a crucial test of their determination. In a demilitarized zone near Panmunjom they were individually interviewed and subjected to “explanations” by communist officials regarding their final choice. There is deep tragedy and high comedy in the encounters at Panmunjom: tragedy in the threats made by the communists against the men and their families; comedy in the ingenious methods the prisoners devised to turn the tables on their interviewers during these grotesque propaganda sessions. The outcome? Only three percent of the total number of prisoners interviewed chose to return to a life under communist rule. Here was a disastrous loss of face for the communist world, and a sweeping victory for the cause of individual freedom...

Heroes Behind Barbed Wire

Author : Kenneth Kalmar Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Heroes Behind Barbed Wire written by Kenneth Kalmar Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Behind Barbed Wire

Author : Paul Kitagaki (Jr.)
Publisher : Cityfiles Press
ISBN 13 : 9780991541812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Behind Barbed Wire written by Paul Kitagaki (Jr.) and published by Cityfiles Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes at the start of World War II and transported to desolate detention centers after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in early 1942. Paul Kitagaki's parents and grandparents were part of that group, but they never talked about their experience. To better understand, Kitagaki tracked down the subjects of more than sixty photographs taken by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and other photographers. This book is a result of that work, which took Kitagaki on a ten-year pilgrimage around the country photographing survivors of camps"--

The Eagles of Heart Mountain

Author : Bradford Pearson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982107057
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Eagles of Heart Mountain written by Bradford Pearson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” —Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told “tale that ultimately stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit” (Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author) about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team. In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp’s high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed for their decisions. The Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a “timely and utterly absorbing account of a country losing its moral way, and a group of its young citizens who never did” (Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind).

The Enemy in Our Hands

Author : Robert Doyle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173833
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Enemy in Our Hands written by Robert Doyle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelations of abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war on terror marked a watershed moment in the study of modern warfare and the treatment of prisoners of war. Amid allegations of human rights violations and war crimes, one question stands out among the rest: Was the treatment of America’s most recent prisoners of war an isolated event or part of a troubling and complex issue that is deeply rooted in our nation’s military history? Military expert Robert C. Doyle’s The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror draws from diverse sources to answer this question. Historical as well as timely in its content, this work examines America’s major wars and past conflicts—among them, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and Vietnam—to provide understanding of the United States’ treatment of military and civilian prisoners. The Enemy in Our Hands offers a new perspective of U.S. military history on the subject of EPWs and suggests that the tactics employed to manage prisoners of war are unique and disparate from one conflict to the next. In addition to other vital information, Doyle provides a cultural analysis and exploration of U.S. adherence to international standards of conduct, including the 1929 Geneva Convention in each war. Although wars are not won or lost on the basis of how EPWs are treated, the treatment of prisoners is one of the measures by which history’s conquerors are judged.

Name, Rank, and Serial Number

Author : Charles S. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199720266
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Name, Rank, and Serial Number written by Charles S. Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise their treatment and criticize the war. When they came back, the Department of the Army and cooperative pundits said too many were weaklings who did not resist communist indoctrination or "brainwashing." Ex-prisoners were featured in a publicity campaign scolding the nation to raise tougher sons for the Cold War. This propaganda was based on feverish exaggerations that ignored the convoluted circumstances POWs were put in, which decisions in Washington helped create.

Armor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine of mobile warfare.

A Hero’s Many Faces

Author : T. Schult
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230236995
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Hero’s Many Faces written by T. Schult and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man.

Voices of the Vietnam POWs

Author : Craig Howes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195086805
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Vietnam POWs written by Craig Howes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Air University Periodical Index

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air University Periodical Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire

Author : Francie Cate-Arries
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755464
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire written by Francie Cate-Arries and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Spanish Civil War in March of 1939, almost 500,000 Spaniards had fled Francisco Franco's newly established military dictatorship. More than 275,000 refugees in France were immediately interned in hastily constructed concentration camps, most of which were located along the open shorelines of France's southernmost beaches. This book chronicles the cultural memory of this war refugee population whose stories as camp inmates in the early 1940s remain largely unknown, unlike the wide dissemination of the literature and testimony of the survivors of Nazi death camps. The hidden history of France's seaside camps for Spanish Republicans spawned a rich legacy of cultural works that dramatically demonstrate how a displaced political community began to reconstitute itself from the ruins of war, literally from the sands of exile. Combining close textual analyses of memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction with a carefully researched historical perspective, Spanish Culture behind Barbed Wire Investigates how the most significant literature of the early post-civil war exile period appropriated the concentration camp as a discursive vehicle.

In Mortal Combat

Author : John Toland
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504025652
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book In Mortal Combat written by John Toland and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Korean War with soldier’s-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy. Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which allowed him to investigate Chairman Mao’s direct involvement in the conflict. Toland supplements his captivating history with in-depth interviews with more than two hundred American soldiers, as well as North Korean, South Korean, and Chinese combatants, plus dozens of poignant photographs, bringing those who fought to vivid life and honoring the memory of those lost. In Mortal Combat is comprehensive in it discussion of events deemed controversial, such as American brutality against Korean civilians and allegations of American use of biological warfare. Toland tells the dramatic account of the Korean War from start to finish, from the appalling experience of its POWs to Mao’s prediction of MacArthur’s Inchon invasion. Toland’s account of the “forgotten war” is a must-read for any history aficionado.

Under Quarantine

Author : Rhona Seidelman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978808372
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Under Quarantine written by Rhona Seidelman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, Israel's central immigration camp. Focusing on the conflicts surrounding the camp's medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life.

The Korean War in Britain

Author : Grace Huxford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526118971
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War in Britain written by Grace Huxford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950–53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations about American use of ‘germ’ warfare to anxiety over Communist use of ‘brainwashing’ and treachery at home, the Korean War precipitated a series of short-lived panics in 1950s Britain. But by the time of its uneasy ceasefire in 1953, the war was becoming increasingly forgotten. Using Mass Observation surveys, letters, diaries and a wide range of under-explored contemporary material, this book charts the war’s changing position in British popular imagination and asks how it became known as the ‘Forgotten War’. It explores the war in a variety of viewpoints – conscript, POW, protester and veteran – and is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain’s Cold War past.

Barbed Wire Heart

Author : Tess Sharpe
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538744104
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire Heart written by Tess Sharpe and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful debut thriller from "a major new talent" (Kirkus) set in a poor, rural community where loyalty is everything, "packs an emotional punch" (Lisa Gardner) as the daughter of a meth kingpin is forced to choose between family, or freedom. Never cut the drugs--leave them pure. Guns are meant to be shot--keep them loaded. Family is everything--betray them and die. Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. Duke McKenna's run more guns, cooked more meth, and killed more men than anyone around. Harley's been working for him since she was sixteen, dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural drug empire he's built. Her time's run out. The Springfields, her family's biggest rivals, are moving in. And they're coming for Duke's only weak spot: his daughter. Duke's raised her to be deadly -- he never counted on her being disloyal. But if Harley wants to survive and protect the people she loves, she's got to take out both Duke's operation and the Springfields. Blowing up meth labs is dangerous business, and getting caught will be the end of her, but Harley has one advantage: She is her father's daughter. And McKennas always win.

Behind Barbed Wire

Author : Anita Buck
Publisher : North Star Press of St. Cloud
ISBN 13 : 9780878391134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Behind Barbed Wire written by Anita Buck and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen POW camps housing German captives existed in Minnesota during World War II. This is the history of those camps, where they were, how they worked, and how the POW's contributed to Minnesota economy, and how and when they ended.

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Korean War

Author : Donald W. Boose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131704150X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to the Korean War written by Donald W. Boose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential companion provides a comprehensive study of the literature on the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War, 1950-1953. Aimed primarily at readers with a special interest in military history and contemporary conflict studies, the authors summarize and analyze the key research issues in what for years was known as the 'Forgotten War.' The book comprises three main thematic parts, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics covering the background, conduct, clashes, and outcome of the Korean War. The first part sets the historical stage, with chapters focusing on the main participants. The second part provides details on the tactics, equipment, and logistics of the belligerents. Part III covers the course of the war, with each chapter addressing a key stage of the fighting in chronological order. The enormous increase in writings on the Korean War during the last thirty years, following the release of key primary source documents, has revived and energized the interest of scholars. This essential reference work not only provides an overview of recent research, but also assesses what impact this has had on understanding the war.