Brainwashing: The Story of Men Who Defied It
Author | : Edward Hunter |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781787202290 |
ISBN-13 | : 1787202291 |
Rating | : 4/5 (291 Downloads) |
Download or read book Brainwashing: The Story of Men Who Defied It written by Edward Hunter and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, this book by U.S. journalist and intelligence agent Edward Hunter comprises dramatic first-hand accounts from Korean War veterans who survived P.O.W. camps and Communist attempts to brainwash them. “The new word brainwashing entered our minds and dictionaries in a phenomenally short time. [...] The reason the word was picked up so quickly was that it was not just a clever synonym for something already known, but described a strategy that had yet no name. [...] The word came out of the sufferings of the Chinese people. Put under a terrifying combination of subtle and crude mental and physical pressures and tortures, they detected a pattern and called it brainwashing. [...] What they had undergone was more like witchcraft, with its incantations, trances, poisons, and potions, with a strange flair of science about it all, like a devil dancer in a tuxedo, carrying his magic brew in a test tube.” A true and terrible story of the men who endured and defied the most diabolical red torture—the war book you will never forget. “A fascinating document.”—Chicago Tribune