Code-Name Bright Light; The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War

Veith, George J.

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: The Free Press, New York, 1998

0684835142 / 9780684835143

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25 cm. xx, 408, [4] pages, Maps. Twelve black and white illustrations between pages 236 and 237. Notes. Glossary of Acronyms and Foreign Terms. Index. George J. Veith is the author of three books on the Vietnam War, including Code Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts during the Vietnam War (1998) and Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-1975 (2013). Account of the American secret operations to rescue POW/MIAs during the Vietnam conflict. Traces the development of the wartime POW intelligence operations including the Joint Personnel Recovery Center, a classified POW/MIA unit responsible for rescuing captives. He has testified on the POW/MIA issue before the U.S. Congress, and is currently working on his Ph.D. and a study of the career of Nguyen Van Thieu. He presented papers at the following major conferences, including the October 2005 Australian War College symposium "Entangling Alliances: Coalition Warfare in the Twentieth Century," in 2006 to the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency at Fort Belvoir, VA, at the May 2008 conference in Paris on "War, Diplomacy, and Public Opinion: The Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam and the End of the Vietnam War (1968-1975)," and at the 2009 Society for Military History Conference. He helped organize a conference held in Washington, DC in April 2010 on "35-Year Retrospective Look on Vietnam." He has appeared on Fox News and other radio and TV stations, and testified twice on the POW/MIA issue before the U.S. House of Representatives. Code-Name Bright Light tells one of the great unknown stories of the Vietnam War: the American military's extensive secret operations to locate and rescue POW/MIAs during the conflict. It is a tale of tragedy and heroism revealed in full for the first time in this volume. The history of the U.S. POW/MIA intelligence and wartime rescue operations has long remained concealed under the shroud of national security, unknown both to the public and to the families of the missing. George J. Veith has assembled an extensive range of previously unseen material, including recently declassified NSA intercepts, State Department cables, and wartime interrogation reports which reveal how the U.S. military conducted a centralized effort to identify, locate, and rescue its POW/MIAs. Code-Name Bright Light also traces the development of the various national wartime POW intelligence operations and provides an in-depth look at the activities of the Joint Personnel Recovery Center, a secretive and highly classified POW/MIA unit in South Vietnam responsible for rescuing captives. Further, it uncovers one of the most tightly held POW/MIA secrets, the primary reason why the government did not think any Americans were left behind: a clandestine communication program between the POWs and the U.S. military. This still-sensitive program provided the identities and locations of American prisoners, defeating North Vietnamese efforts to keep their names and locations a secret. The raids and efforts that make up the narrative of Code-Name Bright Light succeeded in freeing hundreds of captive South Vietnamese soldiers but resulted in the rescue of few Americans. The vast network of efforts, however, is a testament to the U.S. military's unknown commitment to freeing its captive soldiers. Veith concludes that the United States secretly went as far as any army could go in freeing its captives in this type of wartime situation. Our understanding of the war remains incomplete without this powerful history.…

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Titel
Code-Name Bright Light; The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War
Autor
Veith, George J.
Verlag
The Free Press, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
1998
Zustand
Very good
Schutzumschlag
Very good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0684835142
ISBN-13
9780684835143
Auflage
First Printing [Stated].
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