Broken Soldiers

"Traversing the no-man's-land of political loyalty and betrayal, Broken Soldiers documents the fierce battle for the minds of America prisoners during the Korean War. In scorching detail, Raymond Lech describes the soldiers' day-to-day experiences in prisoner-of-war camps and the shocking treatment some of them received at the hands of their own countrymen after the war. Why, he asks, were only fourteen American soldiers tried as collaborators when thousands of others who admitted to some of the same offenses were not?". "Drawing on some sixty thousand pages of court-martial transcripts Lech…