Binding: Paperback
Description: " With astonishing verve The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/ MI a husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little - known story a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s - era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery chutzpah and style. Honestly I couldn t put it down." Beth Macy author of Dopesick and Factory Man" Exhilarating and inspiring." Elaine Showalter Washington Post The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington and Hanoi to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 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 PO Ws 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 MI As 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.
Title: The League Of Wives The Untold Story Of The Women Who Took On The U. S. Government To Bring Their Husbands Home
Author(s): Lee Heath Hardage
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250161116
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/7/2020
Category: Vietnam War