{"product_id":"book-cq4i","title":"The League of Wives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Listeners are transported back to the 1960s by Heath Hardage Lee and her painstaking research... Her fascination with her subjects is infectious. Listeners who are fans of history will find much to admire in this little-known story.\" — \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis program is read by the author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. These 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—and to account for missing military men—by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an unpausable work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. \u003ci\u003eThe League of Wives \u003c\/i\u003eis certain to be on everyone’s must-listen list.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A remarkable true story of love, war, courage, constancy and change—as a group of naval housewives transformed themselves into powerful advocates for their missing husbands.\" — \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiza Mundy, Author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u003ci\u003eCode Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49377140113712,"sku":"BDcq4i","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/321898-cq4i-Square.jpg?v=1734902584","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cq4i","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}