Cold War captives: imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing
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Main Author: Carruthers, Susan L., (Susan Lisa) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Between camps -- Upper East Side story : repatriation, romance, and Cold War mobilization -- Bloc-busters : the politics and pageantry of escape from the East -- Stalin's slaves : the rise of gulag consciousness -- First captive in a hot war : the case of Robert Vogeler -- Prisoners of Pavlov : Korean War captivity and the brainwashing scare
Susan Carruthers offers a provocative history of early Cold War America, in which she recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. She shows how central to American opinion at the time was a fascination with captivity & escape. Captivity became a way to understand everything
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 335 pages)
ISBN:0520944798
9780520944794

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