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REMEMBERED PRISONERS OF A FORGOTTEN WAR: An Oral History of Korean War POWs. By Lewis H. Carlson. Published by St. Martin's Press. 256 pages. Stock #0312286848. $22.45 MCA Members. $24.95 Nonmembers.
"I got my Ph.D. in Communism at the University of North Korea, starving to death on the banks of the beautiful Yalu River," said Jack Browning. "It was a three-year course."
Browning was one of more than 7,000 Americans held captive during the Korean War, 1,000 of whom the communists murdered in cold blood. Before the ink dried on the armistice at Panmunjom, 2,701 Americans had died behind the wire. By comparison, the Vietnamese communists took fewer than 1,000 Americans prisoner from 1964 to 1973.
"Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War" is a book about memories. It is oral history. Author Lewis H. Carlson...