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An American dream : the life of an African American soldier and POW who spent twelve years in communist China / Clarence Adams ; edited by Della Adams & Lewis H. Carlson.

Title
An American dream : the life of an African American soldier and POW who spent twelve years in communist China / Clarence Adams ; edited by Della Adams & Lewis H. Carlson.
Author
Adams, Clarence, 1929-1999.
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Adams, Della, 1959-
  • Carlson, Lewis H.
Description
xvii, 155 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-155).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Skippy: the formative years -- U.S. Army combat soldier: Korea -- Captured! -- Camp 5 --Turncoat? -- University days: Beijing and Wuhan -- Marriage and family -- The foreign languages press, Africans, and the Vietnam broadcasts -- Going home! -- Recriminations -- Bootstrapping to the American dream.
ISBN
  • 9781558495944 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1558495940 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781558495951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1558495959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007004224