Charles S. Young

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Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199720262
• Artikelnr.: 40712137

Autorenporträt

Charles S. Young is Associate Professor of History, Southern Arkansas University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part I: Over There
* 1. Limited War Sets the Stage for the POW Odyssey
* 2. The Middle Passage: Life-Changing Horrors in the First Year of
Captivity
* 3. Andersonville East: Communist Prisoners are Pressured to Defect
* 4. Welcome, Fellow Peasant: The Chinese Seek Converts
* 5. POWL: Prisoners of Limited War Languish as Propaganda Becomes a
Substitute for Victory
* 6. The Failure of Chinese Indoctrination
* 7. The United Nations Command Withholds POWs
* Part II: Over Here
* 8. Home to Cheers and Jeers
* 9. The Brainwashing Dilemma: Atrocity Reports Undermine Punishment
* 10. Prosecutions Rile the Nation
* 11. Target Mom: Disciplining "Misplaced Sympathy"
* 12. Missing Action: Hollywood Films Try and Fail to Fix Captivity
* 13. The Hidden Reason for Forgetting Korea
* Conclusion: Two Wars, the Visible and the Cloaked
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index