04742cam a2200709 4500 526304602 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250202987 1250202981 231a8831-3107-4c0d-a175-b9aa8bc51d40 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3980799 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lee, Heath Hardage. The League of Wives [Libby Audiobook] : The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home. Macmillan Audio, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 283MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 283MB. nonfiction audio books. narrative nonfiction. women in vietnam war. history audiobooks. Missing in Action. Reese Witherspoon. prisoners of war. women in history. vietnam veterans. Henry Kissinger. president nixon. paris agreement. james stockdale. sybil stockdale. military wives. lyndon johnson. Hello Sunshine. books on tape. jim stockdale. Hanoi hilton. pow advocate. John McCain. true story. navy pilot. feminism. sixties. p.o.w.s. 1960s. m.i.a. MIA. lbj. POW. HTML:"Listeners are transported back to the 1960s by Heath Hardage Lee and her painstaking research... Her fascination with her subjects is infectious. Listeners who are fans of history will find much to admire in this little-known story." — AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author. 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 an unpausable work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-listen list. "A remarkable true story of love, war, courage, constancy and change—as a group of naval housewives transformed themselves into powerful advocates for their missing husbands." — Liza Mundy, Author of the New York Times Bestseller Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3980799-TheLeagueOfWives.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=231a8831-3107-4c0d-a175-b9aa8bc51d40&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3980799-TheLeagueOfWives.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=231a8831-3107-4c0d-a175-b9aa8bc51d40&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)