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The League of Wives : the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home

Lee, Heath Hardage, author

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\"The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington--and Hanoi--to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves \"feminists,\" but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom--and to account for missing military men--by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese. / Military spouses United States Biography. / Families of military personnel United States History 20th century. / Prisoners of war Vietnam Biography. / Prisoners of war United States Biography. / Air pilots, Military United States Biography. / United States Politics and government 1969-1974 / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States.
• ISBN: 9781250161109

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS559.4.L44 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE