Brainwashing: The Story of Men Who Defied It

by Edward Hunter

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787202290
Publisher:	Hauraki Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Edward Hunter (1902-1978) was an American journalist, author, and intelligence agent. He is credited with popularizing the use of the term "brainwashing" in English, and collected a large number of examples of Chinese Communist propaganda targeted at the (largely illiterate) population in the immediate post-revolution period. In March 1958, he testified before the United States House of Representatives' House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Hunter began his career as a journalist at the Newark Ledger in New Jersey before moving on to the Chicago Tribune's Paris edition. Hunter worked in Japan and in China from the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, the time of the Japanese detachment of Manchukuo from China. He covered the Second Italo-Abyssinian War between Italy and Ethiopia, and took note of the psychological warfare methods used in all these instances, as well as during the preparations by Germany for World War II.
He died in 1978.

Hunter began his career as a journalist at the Newark Ledger in New Jersey before moving on to the Chicago Tribune’s Paris edition. Hunter worked in Japan and in China from the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, the time of the Japanese detachment of Manchukuo from China. He covered the Second Italo-Abyssinian War between Italy and Ethiopia, and took note of the psychological warfare methods used in all these instances, as well as during the preparations by Germany for World War II.
He died in 1978.