2355 Days: A POW’s Story

A former Air Force officer describes his harrowing six-and-a-half-year ordeal as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, describing the deprivations, fear, loneliness, torture, and uncertainty of life as a POW and his determination to survive.

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