League of Wives,Used
League of Wives,Used

League of Wives,Used

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"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their littleknown story a profile of courage that spotlights 1960sera military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldnt put it down." Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man"Exhilarating and inspiring." Elaine Showalter, Washington PostThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washingtonand Hanoito 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 ratinfested, mosquitoladen 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 freedomand to account for missing military menby 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 pageturning work of narrative nonfiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyones mustread list.

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