Name, Rank, and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad

Young, Charles S.

ISBN 10: 0195183487 / ISBN 13: 9780195183481

Published by Oxford University Press (edition 1), 2014

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With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Name, Rank, and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195183487
• ISBN 13: 9780195183481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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