As a retired Army Ranger that spent years propagating the Cold War in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and then years spent in Combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book filled me with a profound sadness tempered with rage at the useless waste of life shadowed by the horrifying suffering. The Herculean effort alone to survive is incalculable. Yet for our Government in our name! One useless Administration after another turning a deaf ear to their cries for help! One hidden message after another and a blind eye to the witnesses allowed them to continue to suffer and die in the hands of their enemy or perhaps some still rotting in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Russia or China while our government stands idly by over the decades. All the while professing their Political Will and spending our treasure, professing false concern for them and their families while behind the scenes actively working to leave them to rot for political expediencies sake.
This book speaks volumes about United State’s Government culpability in this effort to gloss over and hide information that could be used to free them if they had the courage to do so! Of our politicians and military leadership whom over the decades have demonstrated ineffective leadership, disgusting cowardliness and a singular incompetence that rivals any before seen. The shame is that no one to this day has been able to effect their rescue. They simply support the Pentagon, CIA and State Department’s efforts to bury this information. One can only read the obfuscation and willful malice perpetrated against these long suffering forgotten American Heroes and become disgusted to your core. This is what we fight for? To support these assassins of transparency, honesty and truth? I’m
Appalled at this malfeasance, considering I’ve served these same men in combat while they’ve actively worked to hide this from the world. This is very sad for me as one who has served for years in Combat to have my belief system so thoroughly destroyed as well as my Patriotism sullied for a Country that I love could be so actively committed to such degradations against our own service members. This fills me with a blind rage. and firm conviction that we only know the half of it. That they were experimented on and suffered horrifically at the hands of these communist savages. To think that all this was kept secret by Military leaders whom have previously demonstrated integrity, professed heroism, courage and leadership when in reality they are simple cowards following a political position without equal in its cruelty and cowardliness. This stands to this present day as the greatest and most horrifying historical truth. It’s simply beyond understanding hat our government would rather leave our sons, fathers, and friends to suffer and die then use the full force of our nation’s might to free them
Or exact vengeance on these countries.
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American Trophies: How US POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China, and Russia by Washington’s “Cynical Attitude” Kindle Edition
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A "fascinating, disturbing and important book...America has to read it:" Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film "The Killing Fields."
Wall Street Journal: "Independent researcher Mark Sauter and John Zimmerlee, the son of a missing-in-action U.S. Air Force serviceman, argue in a new e-book, that U.S. incompetence, combined with a desire to downplay the issue amid on-again-off-again negotiations with North Korea, have trumped the military's 'no man left behind' imperative. The two men also say that there is some evidence that American soldiers may still be alive in North Korea today..."
Associated Press: "Mark Sauter, a private researcher and co-author with John Zimmerlee of 'American Trophies and Washington's Cynical Attitude,' an e-book about POWs to be published this month, found in government archives a U.S. intelligence report from August 1955, two years after the war, calling for a bigger intelligence effort to learn about such POW transfers."
Drudge Report: "Book: USA left POWs behind in NKorea, China, Russia..."
The Washington Free Beacon: "The book, American Trophies: How American POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China, and Russia by Washington's 'Cynical Attitude,' includes numerous cases of missing Americans from the Korean War, along with several from the Cold War and Vietnam War. It is based on years of research, interviews, and documents by the authors, Sauter and John Zimmerlee. Declassified intelligence reports obtained by the authors reveal that Americans were being held captive in China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union at least through the 1990s."
Wall Street Journal: "Independent researcher Mark Sauter and John Zimmerlee, the son of a missing-in-action U.S. Air Force serviceman, argue in a new e-book, that U.S. incompetence, combined with a desire to downplay the issue amid on-again-off-again negotiations with North Korea, have trumped the military's 'no man left behind' imperative. The two men also say that there is some evidence that American soldiers may still be alive in North Korea today..."
Associated Press: "Mark Sauter, a private researcher and co-author with John Zimmerlee of 'American Trophies and Washington's Cynical Attitude,' an e-book about POWs to be published this month, found in government archives a U.S. intelligence report from August 1955, two years after the war, calling for a bigger intelligence effort to learn about such POW transfers."
Drudge Report: "Book: USA left POWs behind in NKorea, China, Russia..."
The Washington Free Beacon: "The book, American Trophies: How American POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China, and Russia by Washington's 'Cynical Attitude,' includes numerous cases of missing Americans from the Korean War, along with several from the Cold War and Vietnam War. It is based on years of research, interviews, and documents by the authors, Sauter and John Zimmerlee. Declassified intelligence reports obtained by the authors reveal that Americans were being held captive in China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union at least through the 1990s."
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About the Author
Written by investigative historian Mark Sauter andKorean War POW expert John Zimmerlee. The latter's involvement with POW/MIA issues started with the1952 disappearance of his father, Air Force officer John Henry Zimmerlee,during the Korean War. Years later, frustrated at the government's failure todeclassify and correlate huge numbers of files in the National Archives andother locations, Zimmerlee took it upon himself as a volunteer, analyzing morethan 100,000 pages and creating a unique database of Korean War cases. Itincludes everything from debriefings of returned Americans to interrogations ofcaptured enemy soldiers. Family members from across the country come toZimmerlee when the Pentagon has no answers. In many cases, he provides witnessevidence on the capture, or death, of servicemen based on information thePentagon POW office has never collected. In some cases, such as where the deathof a loved one was observed by his comrades-in-arms, this information satisfiesthe family's questions, providing answers that have eluded them for decades. Inothers, the information may raise new issues and suggest next steps in thesearch. John has provided information to more than 1,000 family members. He isnow the volunteer Executive Director of the Korean & Cold War POW/MIA Network and board member of other POW/MIAgroups.
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- Publication date : July 25, 2013
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AMERICAN TROPHIES is a thought provoking, well-researched, well-documented account about the tragedy of our POW/MIA American servicemen who remain unaccounted for. After the Korea War, thousands of these brave men who sacrificed their lives for the freedom we enjoy today were "presumed dead." After reading the book and the in-depth declassified documents, you understand the gravity of the situation in that they should have been "presumed alive." 60 years later, their ultimate fate remains in the hands of bureaucrats who continue to refute their own evidence of American servicemen being taken to North Korea, China and the Soviet Union during and after the Korean War and never returned to U.S. soil.
Bravo to authors Mark Sauter and John Zimmerlee for this important work. Their years of commitment, sacrifice and passion shines through on each and every page giving voice to the thousands of families that want nothing more than to bring their missing loved one home.
Bravo to authors Mark Sauter and John Zimmerlee for this important work. Their years of commitment, sacrifice and passion shines through on each and every page giving voice to the thousands of families that want nothing more than to bring their missing loved one home.
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This book rips the veil of secrecy off a disgraceful and ongoing chapter of our history and exposes an indisputable fact. Contrary to popular slogans, America leaves its Prisoner of War behind. Abandoning them to enemies who hold them back simply because the can. "Cynical Attitude" is well researched and documented. Using the government's own words and evidence. "Cynical Attitude" proves not all our POWs came home at the end of the Korean War, sixty years ago.
This book is more than faded documents. It is the stories of sons, brothers, husbands and fathers. Men condemned living their lives in the gulags of North Korea, China and the former Soviet Union.
In "Cynical Attitude", you will read about Richard Desautels, a bright farm boy from Vermont. With an aptitude for language, Desautels learned Chinese during his captivity. His language skills cost Dick Desautels his freedom. He realized the Chinese did not intend to release him. A returned POWs told U.S. officials of a conversation with Desautels. The returned POW said Desautels told him "...if he should disappear to make inquiries concerning his whereabouts with the proper military authorities." Desautels is one of hundreds if not thousands who disappeared into communist prisons.
"Cynical Attitude" is required reading for anyone who believes American POWs were left behind at the end of the Korean War.
For those who do not believe POWs were left behind, "Cynical Attitude" will change your mind.
This book is more than faded documents. It is the stories of sons, brothers, husbands and fathers. Men condemned living their lives in the gulags of North Korea, China and the former Soviet Union.
In "Cynical Attitude", you will read about Richard Desautels, a bright farm boy from Vermont. With an aptitude for language, Desautels learned Chinese during his captivity. His language skills cost Dick Desautels his freedom. He realized the Chinese did not intend to release him. A returned POWs told U.S. officials of a conversation with Desautels. The returned POW said Desautels told him "...if he should disappear to make inquiries concerning his whereabouts with the proper military authorities." Desautels is one of hundreds if not thousands who disappeared into communist prisons.
"Cynical Attitude" is required reading for anyone who believes American POWs were left behind at the end of the Korean War.
For those who do not believe POWs were left behind, "Cynical Attitude" will change your mind.
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Very sad indeed.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2015Verified Purchase
In the same vein as Soldiers of Misfortune. Deals mainly with what happened to soldiers during and after the Korean War. It will open your eyes if you have previously no idea of the stories here. Very sad indeed.
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