Download We Fight for Peace: Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War AudioBook Free
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the previous step was taken in the armistice to get rid of the war in Korea. That night, the natural Indian guards who experienced overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process forgotten their posts, going out of their charges to make their own decisions. Almost all men allowed to choose a fresh nation were Chinese and North Koreans who elected the road of freedom. There have been smaller groups wishing that the communist bloc would provide them with a better life; among these men were 21 American soldiers and prisoners of war. We Struggle for Serenity instructs their story. Through the four months prior to the armistice, news experienced spread throughout the United States and the entire world that a band of 23 People in america was refusing repatriation. In the interim, two of the 23 soldiers experienced escaped. Once again behind American lines, the first voluntary repatriate, Edward Dickenson, was presented with celebrity treatment with the hope that positive experience would attract the others to return to the United States. Just one more American POW, Claude Batchelor, decided to go with repatriation. In america, Dickenson, who was simply being cared for at Walter Reed INFIRMARY, was positioned under arrest and charged with a number of collaboration related crimes. Weeks later, Batchelor was similarly arrested. Over the course of the coming calendar months, Dickenson and Batchelor, against the setting of Joseph McCarthy's Army Hearings, were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. In the ensuing years, Dickenson and Batchelor, both of whom experienced voluntarily returned to the United States, watched from their jail skin cells as most of the remaining 21 People in america trickled back home, guarded by the dishonorable discharges they received. We Struggle for Serenity is the first extensive scholarly work on this controversial event in international history.
