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 give them a better life; among these men were twenty-one American soldiers and prisoners of war. “We Fight for Peace” tells their story. During the four months prior to the armistice, news had spread throughout the United States and the world that a group of twenty-three Americans was refusing repatriation. In the interim, two of the twenty-three soldiers had escaped. Once back behind American lines, the first voluntary repatriate, Edward Dickenson, was given celebrity treatment with the hope that this positive experience would entice the others to return to the United States. Just one more American POW, Claude Batchelor,chose repatriation. In the United States, Dickenson, who was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center, was placed under arrest and charged with a variety of collaboration related crimes. Weeks later, Batchelor was similarly arrested. Over the course of the coming months, Dickenson and Batchelor, against the backdrop of Joseph McCarthy's Army Hearings, were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. In the ensuing years, Dickenson and Batchelor, both of whom had voluntarily returned to the United States, watched from their jail cells as most of the remaining twenty-one Americans trickled back home, protected by the dishonorable discharges they received. Exhaustively researched and meticulously documented, “We Fight for Peace” is the first comprehensive scholarly work on this controversial event in international history.

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Brian Dallas McKnight

McKnight, Brian D.

The Kent State University Press

United States, United States of America

Kent, Ohio, Ohio, 2014

lg2816346

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.

Beginnings And Backgrounds -- The Short Careers Of Soldiers -- Captivity And Compromise -- Winning The Hearts Of Soldiers -- Politicians And Their Careers -- The Shocking Refusal: July 27-october 20, 1953 -- The Returns...ed Dickenson: October 20-december 31, 1953 -- Dickenson's Reckoning -- Batchelor's Reckoning -- Men Jailed...and Walking Free, 1954-1957 -- Outcasts In Life And Death Since 1958 -- Lessons, Learned And Ignored. Brian D. Mcknight. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 313-322) And Index.

封面
半标题页
封面
奉献精神
版权页
内容
致谢
介绍
一:起点和背景
二:士兵的空缺
三:囚禁与妥协
四:赢得俘虏之心
五:政客及其职业
六:令人震惊的拒绝:1953年7月27日至10月20日
七:回归......埃德·狄更森(Ed Dickenson)-1953年10月20日至12月31日
八:狄更森的算盘
九:巴切洛的算盘
十:男人被判入狱......并自由行走,1954-1957年
十一:自1958年以来流亡的流亡者
十二:经验教训和教训
笔记
参考书目
索引

2020-10-25