Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative

by Robert C. Doyle

Book Overview

Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape, and The Hanoi Hilton, and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the POW story holds a special place in American culture. Robert Doyle's remarkable study shows why it has retained such enormous power to move and instruct us.

Long after wartime, memories of captivity haunt former wartime prisoners, their families, and their society-witness the continuing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700606637
• ISBN13: 9780700606634
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"