Isbn: 9780679430162 - prisoners of hope: exploiting the pow/mia myth in america (12 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A journalist presents an eye-opening expose+a7 of the exploitation of the families of soldiers missing in Vietnam, revealing how the U.S. government has mismanaged the issue, the individuals who prey on MIA families, and the tragic impact of such activities. 25,000 first printing. Tour. 276 pages.…

Zustand: very good, good. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 276, acid-free paper, illus., small tear to DJ, rear DJ somewhat wrinkled, publisher's ephemera laid in, including author's photo. Shows what happened to most of the prisoners captured in Vietnam and exposes those who would exploit the missing servicemen's families, including the government, which has lied about the situation for years.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xxii, 276, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. A journalist presents an eye-opening expose of the exploitation of the families of soldiers missing in Vietnam, revealing how the U.S. government has mismanaged the issue, the individuals who prey on MIA families, and the tragic impact of such activities. Susan Katz Keating is an award winning writer and investigative journalist specializing in terrorism and national security. As the security and terrorism correspondent for American Media Institute, she has broken fast-developing stories of international and national scope. As military correspondent for PEOPLE magazine, she has broken stories there and in TIME on the U.S. military and domestic terrorism. A former Washington Times security reporter, she is the author of Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America (Random House), and three other books. Her work has appeared in Readers Digest, the New York Times, Air&Space, American Legion, VFW, Soldier of Fortune, and other publications. She has been cited in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, and other journals. She is a founding trustee for the National Museum of Americans in Wartime, and serves on the boards of Military Reporters & Editors and Cooking With the Troops. She briefly was in the U.S. Army, where she earned her Expert rating on the M-16 rifle. She was editor of the Dixon Tribune newspaper in California. She was a director of the Travis AFB Museum, and served as restoration crew chief on a B-52. Derived from a Kirkus review: A compelling book dealing with the question of MIAs in Vietnam. As a journalist Keating has worked for Soldier of Fortune magazine and the Washington Times. In the present volume, she uses her skills as an investigative reporter to attack the notion that American POWs and MIAs were left behind in Indochina. A vocal lobby clamors for a full accounting of all MIAs, numbered by the federal government at around 1,200. Reported sightings add fuel to the belief that American soldiers were held hostage by the Vietnamese and abandoned by a government eager to put the war behind it. After all, the logic goes, hadn't it happened to the French in the 1950s? The truth, however, according to Keating, is that the US experience is not that of the French: No American POWs remain. And aside from a few known defectors, all the MIAs are dead. Citing the 80,000 missing from WW II, Keating points out that MIAs are part of the nature of modern warfare, in which the recovery or identification of remains is often impossible. In the case of the Vietnam POWs, however, the military had reduced the number of true ``missing'' to under 100 before a political hue and cry forced them to inflate the MIA list with the names of many men known to be dead but whose bodies were not found. Sightings of live POWs are hoaxes, says Keating, designed to fuel a political machine or to extort money from relatives on the slim hope that the men are alive. She slams, in particular, mercenaries like Bull Simons and Bo Gritz, who plan raids into Indochina (most of which never occur) in search of the lost. The real conspiracy, writes Keating, is not committed by a government bent on hiding a scandal but by those who prey on the hopes and fears of the ones truly left behindâ"the families of the dead. Highly persuasive. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. A few readers creases where book opens to certain pages affecting the integrity of the binding though still tightly and squarely bound. DJ has edgewear, especially on spine, and one inch tear on top left corner of front cover. On FFEP gift inscription: "For the love of my life on this earth, I thank God every day you made it back to this USA and, eventually, to me. Your Elizabeth". Index has highlighting. ISBN 0679430164. Book.…