Virginia Pasley

The true story of the American Korean War GIs who chose Communist China--who they were, and the reasons for their choice.
NYT review: MORE effective with her statistics than her sentiment, Virginia Pasley presents here an indictment of those of us who sent young soldiers to the Korean war untrained, unarmed, undedicated. They got their guns all right, and their military hardening, but they were in tragically short supply of that moral ammunition. VIEW FULL ARTICLE IN TIMESMACHINE »

927 21 Stayed: The Story of the American GI's Who Chose Communist China--Who They Were and Why They Stayed, by Virginia Pasley (read 5 Nov 1967) Ever since the time this was big news I was curious as to why they would choose not to return. So when I saw this book I had to read it, and it answered a lot of questions for me.