“A brave book,” well-timed with the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords (“Dissenting POWs” reviewed in Peace & Change)
February 20, 2024
As part of its survey of POWs in society, the book delves into movie treatments. The antiwar prisoners were obscured by Hollywood, which preferred films on the POWs and “Missing in Action” (MIAs) who were supposedly left behind, or which dwelt on the trope of the deranged veteran....