Chaos, Kangaroo Courts, and Communism at Koje-Do: POW Riots in the Korean War

by Arthur Sharp

The U.S. Army made some serious mistakes during the almost forgotten, but historically significant, Korean War. One of them was assigning combat officers untrained for prison administration as commanders of the United Nations prisoner of war camps. The communist POWs took full advantage of that and made life miserable for them, their guards, and fellow prisoners who were not committed to their ideology. Riots in the prison camps became deadly on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977271170
• ISBN13: 9781977271174
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"