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Ex-prisoners were featured in a publicity campaign scolding the nation to raise tougher sons for the Cold War. Clandestine agents and a fraternity of anticommunist prisoners launched a violent campaign to inflate the number of POWs refusing repatriation after the war.

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195183487

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Number of Pages256 Pages

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Publication NameName, Rank, and Serial Number : Exploiting Korean War Pows at Home and Abroad

SubjectMilitary / Korean War, Sociology / General, Military / General

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorCharles S. Young

FormatHardcover

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Reviews"Young's book serves up a diplomatic-history-meets-pow saga that transforms the story of both American and communist prisoners of war into a cautionary tale of the deliberate politicization of war and its unintended consequences... [I]mmeasurably valuable to every citizen of the republic." --Journal of American History "Charles Young has written a sensitive, riveting, balanced, well-researched, and highly readable book that has a surprising contemporary relevance, given the Bush administration's torture of POWs. Young examines how all sides dealt with POWs in Korea, especially the treatment of POWs by the US and South Korea (something usually overlooked in such accounts), and knocks down any number of myths about 'brainwashing.' This is a well-informed, critical and truly important addition to a literature that is surprisingly small, but intensely pertinent." --Bruce Cumings, author of The Korean War: A History "Charles Young adroitly rescues his subjects from decades of obscurity and puts prisoners of war where they belong: at the center of the Korean War story. Based on extensive archival research and fresh oral history interviews, Name, Rank, and Serial Number is accessible, empathetic, and thoroughly persuasive." --Susan L. Carruthers, author of Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape and Brainwashing "This is an original and valuable addition to both the political and the cultural history of the Korean War. Charles Young convincingly shows that Washington's manipulation of the POW issue added two years to the war and thus doubled the number of U.S. casualties. He then gives us a nuanced vision of how this manipulation led to a destructive reimagining of the POWs in American culture." --H. Bruce Franklin, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America "This well-written, provocative book is especially valuable for its analysis of the treatment of returning prisoners-of-war in the context of U.S. culture during the 1950s." --William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War, "Young's book serves up a diplomatic-history-meets-pow saga that transforms the story of both American and communist prisoners of war into a cautionary tale of the deliberate politicization of war and its unintended consequences....[I]mmeasurably valuable to every citizen of the republic."--Journal of American History"Charles Young has written a sensitive, riveting, balanced, well-researched, and highly readable book that has a surprising contemporary relevance, given the Bush administration's torture of POWs. Young examines how all sides dealt with POWs in Korea, especially the treatment of POWs by the US and South Korea (something usually overlooked in such accounts), and knocks down any number of myths about 'brainwashing.' This is a well-informed, critical and trulyimportant addition to a literature that is surprisingly small, but intensely pertinent."--Bruce Cumings, author of The Korean War: A History"Charles Young adroitly rescues his subjects from decades of obscurity and puts prisoners of war where they belong: at the center of the Korean War story. Based on extensive archival research and fresh oral history interviews, Name, Rank, and Serial Number is accessible, empathetic, and thoroughly persuasive."--Susan L. Carruthers, author of Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape and Brainwashing"This is an original and valuable addition to both the political and the cultural history of the Korean War. Charles Young convincingly shows that Washington's manipulation of the POW issue added two years to the war and thus doubled the number of U.S. casualties. He then gives us a nuanced vision of how this manipulation led to a destructive reimagining of the POWs in American culture."--H. Bruce Franklin, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America"This well-written, provocative book is especially valuable for its analysis of the treatment of returning prisoners-of-war in the context of U.S. culture during the 1950s."--William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War, "Young's book serves up a diplomatic-history-meets-pow saga that transforms the story of both American and communist prisoners of war into a cautionary tale of the deliberate politicization of war and its unintended consequences....[I]mmeasurably valuable to every citizen of the republic."--Journal of American History"Charles Young has written a sensitive, riveting, balanced, well-researched, and highly readable book that has a surprising contemporary relevance, given the Bush administration's torture of POWs. Young examines how all sides dealt with POWs in Korea, especially the treatment of POWs by the US and South Korea (something usually overlooked in such accounts), and knocks down any number of myths about 'brainwashing.' This is a well-informed, critical and truly important addition to a literature that is surprisingly small, but intensely pertinent."--Bruce Cumings, author of The Korean War: A History"Charles Young adroitly rescues his subjects from decades of obscurity and puts prisoners of war where they belong: at the center of the Korean War story. Based on extensive archival research and fresh oral history interviews, Name, Rank, and Serial Number is accessible, empathetic, and thoroughly persuasive."--Susan L. Carruthers, author of Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape and Brainwashing"This is an original and valuable addition to both the political and the cultural history of the Korean War. Charles Young convincingly shows that Washington's manipulation of the POW issue added two years to the war and thus doubled the number of U.S. casualties. He then gives us a nuanced vision of how this manipulation led to a destructive reimagining of the POWs in American culture."--H. Bruce Franklin, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America"This well-written, provocative book is especially valuable for its analysis of the treatment of returning prisoners-of-war in the context of U.S. culture during the 1950s."--William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War, "Young's book serves up a diplomatic-history-meets-pow saga that transforms the story of both American and communist prisoners of war into a cautionary tale of the deliberate politicization of war and its unintended consequences....[I]mmeasurably valuable to every citizen of the republic."--Journal of American History "Charles Young has written a sensitive, riveting, balanced, well-researched, and highly readable book that has a surprising contemporary relevance, given the Bush administration's torture of POWs. Young examines how all sides dealt with POWs in Korea, especially the treatment of POWs by the US and South Korea (something usually overlooked in such accounts), and knocks down any number of myths about 'brainwashing.' This is a well-informed, critical and truly important addition to a literature that is surprisingly small, but intensely pertinent."--Bruce Cumings, author of The Korean War: A History "Charles Young adroitly rescues his subjects from decades of obscurity and puts prisoners of war where they belong: at the center of the Korean War story. Based on extensive archival research and fresh oral history interviews, Name, Rank, and Serial Number is accessible, empathetic, and thoroughly persuasive."--Susan L. Carruthers, author of Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape and Brainwashing "This is an original and valuable addition to both the political and the cultural history of the Korean War. Charles Young convincingly shows that Washington's manipulation of the POW issue added two years to the war and thus doubled the number of U.S. casualties. He then gives us a nuanced vision of how this manipulation led to a destructive reimagining of the POWs in American culture."--H. Bruce Franklin, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America "This well-written, provocative book is especially valuable for its analysis of the treatment of returning prisoners-of-war in the context of U.S. culture during the 1950s."--William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War, "Charles Young has written a sensitive, riveting, balanced, well-researched, and highly readable book that has a surprising contemporary relevance, given the Bush administration's torture of POWs. Young examines how all sides dealt with POWs in Korea, especially the treatment of POWs by the US and South Korea (something usually overlooked in such accounts), and knocks down any number of myths about 'brainwashing.' This is a well-informed, critical and truly important addition to a literature that is surprisingly small, but intensely pertinent." --Bruce Cumings, author of The Korean War: A History "Charles Young adroitly rescues his subjects from decades of obscurity and puts prisoners of war where they belong: at the center of the Korean War story. Based on extensive archival research and fresh oral history interviews, Name, Rank, and Serial Number is accessible, empathetic, and thoroughly persuasive." -Susan L. Carruthers, author of Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape and Brainwashing "This is an original and valuable addition to both the political and the cultural history of the Korean War. Charles Young convincingly shows that Washington's manipulation of the POW issue added two years to the war and thus doubled the number of U.S. casualties. He then gives us a nuanced vision of how this manipulation led to a destructive reimagining of the POWs in American culture." --H. Bruce Franklin, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America "This well-written, provocative book is especially valuable for its analysis of the treatment of returning prisoners-of-war in the context of U.S. culture during the 1950s." --William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal951.90427

Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Over There1. Limited War Sets the Stage for the POW Odyssey2. The Middle Passage: Life-Changing Horrors in the First Year of Captivity3. Andersonville East: Communist Prisoners are Pressured to Defect4. Welcome, Fellow Peasant: The Chinese Seek Converts5. POWL: Prisoners of Limited War Languish as Propaganda Becomes a Substitute for Victory6. The Failure of Chinese Indoctrination7. The United Nations Command Withholds POWsPart II: Over Here8. Home to Cheers and Jeers9. The Brainwashing Dilemma: Atrocity Reports Undermine Punishment10. Prosecutions Rile the Nation11. Target Mom: Disciplining "Misplaced Sympathy"12. Missing Action: Hollywood Films Try and Fail to Fix Captivity13. The Hidden Reason for Forgetting KoreaConclusion: Two Wars, the Visible and the CloakedNotesBibliographyIndex

SynopsisVietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise their treatment and criticize the war. When they came back, the Department of the Army and cooperative pundits said too many were weaklings who did not resist communist indoctrination or "brainwashing." Ex-prisoners were featured in a publicity campaign scolding the nation to raise tougher sons for the Cold War. This propaganda was based on feverish exaggerations that ignored the convoluted circumstances POWs were put in, which decisions in Washington helped create., The Korean War became a prolonged struggle over POWs, as Name, Rank, and Serial Number details. The United Nations Command compelled prisoners to defect and the communists used captive GIs in propaganda denouncing capitalism. At home, ex-POWs were used in propaganda again when the Army chastised the nation for raising effeminate sons unable to withstand captivity., Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War (1950-1953) American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise their treatment and criticize the war. When they came back, the Department of the Army and cooperative pundits said too many were weaklings who did not resist communist indoctrination or "brainwashing." Ex-prisoners were featured in a publicity campaign scolding the nation to raise tougher sons for the Cold War. This propaganda was based on feverish exaggerations that ignored the convoluted circumstances POWs were put in, which decisions in Washington helped create. POWs became pivotal to the Korean War after peace talks began in summer 1951. Since fighting had stalemated, both sides raced to win propaganda victories. The Chinese publicized American airmen who confessed to alleged germ warfare atrocities. American commanders worked to discredit communism by encouraging thousands of North Korean and Chinese prisoners to defect. Clandestine agents and a fraternity of anticommunist prisoners launched a violent campaign to inflate the number of POWs refusing repatriation after the war. Armistice negotiations floundered while China and North Korea demanded their soldiers back. United States delegates held out for what they called "voluntary repatriation," but in reality, thousands of prisoners were terrorized into renouncing their right of return. American POWs remained captive for eighteen more months of fighting over the terms of a compromised prisoner exchange. In the United States, details of the voluntary repatriation policy were suppressed. Name, Rank, and Serial Number explains how this provides new insight into why Korea became "the forgotten war."

LC Classification NumberDS921.Y68 2014