{"product_id":"2940169284522","title":"The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington amp;mdash; and Hanoi amp;mdash; to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 12 February, 1973, 116 men who, just six years earlier, had been high-flying navy and air force pilots, shuffled, limped or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonths later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti and Helene Knapp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves 'feminists', but they had become the POW and MIAs' most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom amp;mdash; and to account for missing military men amp;mdash; by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists and, most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a gripping work of narrative nonfiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. \u003ci\u003eThe League of Wives\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to be on everyone's must-listen list.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097856033008,"sku":"2940169284522","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169284522_p0.jpg?v=1763678508","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169284522","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}