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And the Wind Blew Cold: The Story of an American Pow in North Korea
Book Title Author(s) : Richard M. Bassett, Lewis H. Carlson
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A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea. October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett,...Read More

Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano, With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon
Book Title Author(s) : Steve Carano, John C. Bitzer, Bill Blackmon
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Not Without Honor threads together the stories of three American POWs—Carano; his buddy Bill Blackmon, who was also at Stalag 17 b; and John C. Bitzer, who survived the brutal “Death March” from northern Germany to liberation in April 1945. At times the journal reads like a thriller as he reco...Read More

An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
Book Title Author(s) : Clarence Adams
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Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning—character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes c...Read More

The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
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The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The ...Read More

Life Behind Barbed Wire: The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo M. Spinelli (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension)
Book Title Author(s) : Angelo Spinelli
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Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine's Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features ph...Read More

Beyond the Red, White, and Blue: A Student's Introduction to American Studies
Book Title Author(s) : Lewis H. Carlson, James M. Ferreira
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Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POWs
Book Title Author(s) : Lewis H. Carlson
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The Korean War POW remains the most maligned victim of all American wars. For nearly half a century, the media, general public, and even scholars have described hundreds of these prisoners as "brainwashed" victims who uncharacteristically caved in to their Communist captors or, even worse, as turnco...Read More

Caged Heroes: American P.O.W. Experiences from the Revolutionary War to the Present
Book Title Author(s) : Jon Couch
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Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
Book Title Author(s) : Elaine Kim
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An introduction to the literary works of Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Filipino-Americans, and Korean-Americans, this book focuses on the self-images and social contexts of the nineteenth-century immigrants, their descendants, and the Americanized writers of today. Although the book examine...Read More

 

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