Heath Hardage Lee The League of Wives (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The League of WivesCondition: NewEAN: 9781472131805ISBN: 9781472131805Publisher: ConstableFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/26/2020Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 126mmItem Width: 34mmItem Weight: 260gAuthor: Heath Hardage LeeLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands HomeISBN-10: 1472131800Description: Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction booksThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen 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, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands.In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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