We Fight for Peace: Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed to choose a new nation were Chinese and North Koreans who elected the path of freedom. There were smaller groups hoping that the communist bloc would give them a better life; among these men were twenty-one American soldiers and prisoners of war. We Fight for Peace tells their story. During the four months prior to the armistice, news had spread…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60635-207-6
- EAN: 9781606352076
- Produktnummer: 15922573
- Verlag: Kent State Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B17.8 cm x D2.5 cm 649 g
- Gewicht: 649
Über den Autor
Brian D. McKnight is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA. A scholar of the Appalachian Civil War experience, his books Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia and Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia have explored the phenomenon of contested and coerced loyalty. McKnight is co-editor of The Kent State University Press's Interpreting American History series.
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