Brainwashed'A frankly brilliant book' The Guardian 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' Simon Garfield In 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose apparently freely to move to Mao's China. Among those refusing repatriation were twenty one American GIs. Their decision sparked alarm in the West: why didn't