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Author McKnight, Brian Dallas, author.

Title "We fight for peace" : twenty-three American soldiers, prisoners of war, and "turncoats" in the Korean War / Brian D. McKnight.

Publication Info. Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Beginnings and backgrounds -- The short careers of soldiers -- Captivity and compromise -- Winning the hearts of soldiers -- Politicians and their careers -- The shocking refusal: July 27-October 20, 1953 -- The returns ... Ed Dickenson: October 20-December 31, 1953 -- Dickenson's reckoning -- Batchelor's reckoning -- Men jailed ... and walking free, 1954-1957 -- Outcasts in life and death since 1958 -- Lessons, learned and ignored.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Repatriation.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Defectors -- United States -- Biography.
Defectors -- China -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- China -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Biography.
Americans -- China -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Story of twenty-two American soldiers, prisoners of war, and "turncoats" in the Korean War
Other Form: Print version: McKnight, Brian Dallas. "We fight for peace" : twenty-three American soldiers, prisoners of war, and "turncoats" in the Korean War. Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2014] 9781606352076 (DLC)10964392
ISBN 9781606352076 (hardcover)
9781612778655 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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