Immediately after their release from captivity in Vietnam, veteran broadcast journalist Rowan set out to discover how the POWs were able to survive their long years of physical and mental torture. In this classic, he presents twelve gripping interviews with the true heroes of that era: Navy Lieutenant Commander John S. McCain, Marine Corps pilot Ernest Brace, and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Stirm, among them. “Solid reporting by a solid reporter”-Dan Rather.
Acclaimed Vietnam War historian George J. Veith reveals how Hanoi’s and Saigon’s secret policies caused the peace between North and South Vietnam to fail, highlights how Hanoi manipulated the U.S. POW/MIA issue, and illuminates how our South Vietnamese allies were unfairly maligned. Peace, POWs, and Power offers compelling insights into
The result of five years of research, First Heroes untangles an intricate web of information and ultimately concludes that the prisoners of war that were held captive in Southeast Asia were forgotten or ignored by their own country. Author Rod Colvin crisscrossed the country interviewing military and government officials, veterans, returned POWs,
A US Naval Aviator’s odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America’s Great Depression in the heartland, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American life following World War II, the Korean War, America’s development of atomic weapons in the Cold War age, the Bay of Pigs
I’m No Hero is the autobiography of Captain J. Charles Plumb. It is also the detailed story of American POW’s in Viet Nam who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger and pain. More significantly, it is a story of hope for it deals directly with the techniques
