The league of wives : the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019].
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9781432864958, 1432864955
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019].
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Large Print
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577 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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9781432864958, 1432864955

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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.--google books
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lee, H. H. (2019). The league of wives: the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lee, Heath Hardage. 2019. The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took On the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lee, Heath Hardage. The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took On the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

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Lee, Heath Hardage. The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took On the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

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