Download or read book United Nations P O W s Prisoners of War in Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Name Rank and Serial Number written by Charles Steuart Young and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War became a prolonged struggle over POWs, as Name, Rank, and Serial Number details. The United Nations Command compelled prisoners to defect and the communists used captive GIs in propaganda denouncing capitalism. At home, ex-POWs were used in propaganda again when the Army chastised the nation for raising effeminate sons unable to withstand captivity.
Download or read book Lonesome Hero written by T. I. Han and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.I. Han relates his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
Download or read book Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in action Personnel from the Korean Conflict and During the Cold War Era written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book March to Calumny written by Albert D. Biderman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cold Days in Hell written by William Clark Latham and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-03 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoners suffer in every conflict, but American servicemen captured during the Korean War faced a unique ordeal. Like prisoners in other wars, these men endured harsh conditions and brutal mistreatment at the hands of their captors. In Korea, however, they faced something new: a deliberate enemy program of indoctrination and coercion designed to manipulate them for propaganda purposes. Most Americans rejected their captors’ promise of a Marxist paradise, yet after the cease fire in 1953, American prisoners came home to face a second wave of attacks. Exploiting popular American fears of communist infiltration, critics portrayed the returning prisoners as weak-willed pawns who had been “brainwashed” into betraying their country. The truth was far more complicated. Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison camps in the Yalu River Valley. Counterattacks by United Nations forces soon drove the North Koreans back across the 38th Parallel, but the unexpected intervention of Communist Chinese forces in November of 1950 led to the capture of several thousand more American prisoners. Neither the North Koreans nor their Chinese allies were prepared to house or feed the thousands of prisoners in their custody, and half of the Americans captured that winter perished for lack of food, shelter, and medicine. Subsequent communist efforts to indoctrinate and coerce propaganda statements from their prisoners sowed suspicion and doubt among those who survived. Relying on memoirs, trial transcripts, debriefings, declassified government reports, published analysis, and media coverage, plus conversations, interviews, and correspondence with several dozen former prisoners, William Clark Latham Jr. seeks to correct misperceptions that still linger, six decades after the prisoners came home. Through careful research and solid historical narrative, Cold Days in Hell provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors and the rules that should govern their treatment.
Download or read book United Nations P O W S in Korea written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings on Cold War Korea WWII POWS written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mutiny at Koje Island written by Hal Vetter and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Korean War book tells the true story of a brutal and epic prison revolt that occurred during the war. This absolutely authentic, horrifying account of treachery, intrigue and ruthless brutality among 150,000 Communist POWs herded together on the small rugged island of Koje-do in Korea, tells of their holding the American commander as hostage and of their ultimate vicious mutiny, armed with thousands of improvised spears, gasoline grenades, and knives, and with countless barbed-wire flails. This is a now-it-can-be-told book that no American can read without becoming shocked and fighting mad. On the other hand no American can read the transcripts of the proceedings at Panmunjom without a deep feeling of respect and admiration for the distinguished military leaders of the United Nations to whom our national honor was entrusted. Their dignity, patience, and forbearance in the performance of a bleak, unrewarding task deserve the commendation of each and every citizen of the free world community.
Download or read book What Happened to American Prisoners of War in Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Prisoners of War in the Korean War written by Arden A. Rowley and published by Turner. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Mercy No Leniency written by Cyril Cunningham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War.The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War.He explains in detail how many prisonors were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their compatriots and infiltrated into every prisoner group to sniff out potentional "progressives and reactionaries".
Download or read book American POWs in Korea written by Harry Spiller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 7,000 Americans were captured during the three years of the Korean War. They wound up in 20 camps throughout North Korea with nearly 40 percent of them dying there. Some were murdered or starved, others died from poor medical treatment or from the severe cold. Despite brutal conditions, most of the POWs survived the isolation, cold, hunger and disease. Here are 16 personal accounts of men who fought the North Koreans and the Chinese and then faced life as a POW. They talk about the psychological effects, the living conditions, the medical situation, the day to day details, and liberation. These compelling stories paint a full picture of life as a prisoner of war in Korea.
Download or read book Return of American Prisoners of War who Have Not Been Accounted for by the Communists written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (85) H. Con. Res. 140.
Download or read book CHAOS KANGAROO COURTS AND COMMUNISM AT KOJE DO written by Arthur Sharp and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army made some serious mistakes during the almost forgotten, but historically significant, Korean War. One of them was assigning combat officers untrained for prison administration as commanders of the United Nations prisoner of war camps. The communist POWs took full advantage of that and made life miserable for them, their guards, and fellow prisoners who were not committed to their ideology. Riots in the prison camps became deadly on an almost daily basis and kangaroo courts cost many POWS their lives via brutal murders—at the hands of their supposed comrades. That was fine with the POWs as long as they kept chaos alive. They brought life to the saying the inmates are running the asylum, which they did until the fourteenth U.S. camp commander finally took back control of the camps in May 1952. The two-and-a-half-year standoff between commanders and communists marked a new era in prisoner of war history which set a precedent for future wars involving westerners versus easterners. This book tells that story in an educational, entertaining, and riveting fashion.
Download or read book Tortured into Fake Confession written by Raymond B. Lech and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, during the Korean War, Colonel Frank H. Schwable became the second-highest-ranking officer held as a prisoner of war by the Communists. His captivity was marked by months of physical and psychological torture that resulted in a signed confession asserting that the United States had used germ warfare on Korean civilians. This serious allegation reverberated throughout the American media with devastating consequences to Col. Schwable’s reputation. Once he was released, an official Marine Corps inquiry was made into his false confession and uncovered the effect psychological torture had on a distinguished and decorated officer’s actions.
Download or read book Humanity Interrogated written by Monica Kim and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Korean War, a particular figure of warfare took center stage at the armistice negotiations - the "prisoner of war." This once-marginal actor of war became the site of such controversy that the signing of the ceasefire was effectively delayed for eighteen months. At stake was who would lay legitimate claim to determining the correct interpretation and application of the moral humanitarian principles embedded in the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. My dissertation argues that the POW controversy reveals how the Korean War pushed to the fore an international struggle over the "laws of war" during formal decolonization. After 1945, what did it mean to engage in "war," when so many conflicts began to bear the monikers of "police action," "intervention," and "occupation"? In response to this question, "Humanity Interrogated" examines a familiar narrative - the rise of the nation-state system in the mid-twentieth century - through more unexpected readings of the different constructions of sovereignty in intimate encounters, whether in U.S. military interrogation rooms, moments of POW capture, or closed armistice meetings at Panmunjom. Drawn from previously unstudied POW trial and investigation records and newly conducted oral history interviews with former prisoners of war and interrogators, "Humanity Interrogated" is at once a microhistorical study of encounters through interrogation, a history of multi-national and state policy-making over the POW, and an international story of how the Korean War heralded an era of reconfiguring warfare in front of decolonization, following two generations of people on both sides of the Pacific as they created and navigated multiple shifting systems of warfare, racial formations, and interrogation from World War II through the Korean War. The dissertation opens with Japanese American internment and the U.S. occupation of Korea, follows a thousand Japanese Americans to Korea as the U.S. drafted them.
