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The League of Wives - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (Paperback)
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The League of Wives - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (Paperback)
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Loot Price R155
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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 12 February, 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 POWs 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 MIAs 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.
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