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NO MERCY, NO LENIENCY : COMMUNIST MISTREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN KOREA / by CYRIL CUNNINGHAM ; WITH A FOREWORD BY M.R. D. FOOT

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Barnsley, Yorkshire : Pen & Sword MILITARY, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., [2020?]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xvii, 170 pages : map, illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781526766786
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 951.90427
Summary: This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War. The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War. He explains in detail how many prisoners were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their compatriots and infiltrated into every prisoner group to sniff out potential progressives and reactionaries.
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This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War. The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War. He explains in detail how many prisoners were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their compatriots and infiltrated into every prisoner group to sniff out potential progressives and reactionaries.

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