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100	1		_aLee, Heath Hardage, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe League of Wives : _bthe untold story of the women who took on the U.S. government to bring their husbands home / _cHeath Hardage Lee.
246	3	0	_aUntold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2019.
300			_a322 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-308) and index.
510	4		_aLibrary Journal, _cMarch 01, 2019
510	4		_aBooklist, _cMarch 01, 2019
510	4		_aPublishers Weekly, _cFebruary 18, 2019
510	4		_aKirkus Reviews, _cFebruary 01, 2019
520			_a"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 February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen 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, 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 in The League of Wives."--Biography.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _xPrisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.
650		0	_aMilitary spouses _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aFamilies of military personnel _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPrisoners of war _zVietnam _vBiography.
650		0	_aPrisoners of war _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aAir pilots, Military _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1969-1974
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _zUnited States.
653			_aPOW MIA wives _aHanoi Hilton
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