We Fight for Peace: Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War

by Brian D. McKnight

At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed to choose a new nation were Chinese and North Koreans who elected the path of freedom. There were smaller groups hoping that the communist bloc would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606352075
• ISBN13: 9781606352076
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.4"