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

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

Young, Charles S.

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryKorean War

ISBN10: 0195183487
ISBN13: 9780195183481
Publisher: OUP Us
Published: May 1 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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