1. Introducing the POW/MIA Controversy 2. Live POWs in Southeast Asia? Says Who? 3. Scuttled Rescues? Debunked Reports? 4. Does Anyone Really Care? 5. Fake Remains? Whose Are They? 6. How Are POWs Treated? How Do They Live? 7. Castro’s Sadistic Cuban Interrogators Tortured POWs? A shocking expose of the shameful betrayal and astounding cover up regarding American military men who were deliberately left behind following World War 11, the Korean War and the debacle in Vietnam. How American soldiers and marines were abandoned in Russian and Chinese slave labor camps. How highly skilled Cuban interrogators were brought in to sadistically maim and murder American POWs. How the attitude of our leaders followed the view espoused by Henry “Bor” Kissinger: “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” And Harriet Ison, Charge d’ Affairs — United States Embassy in Vientiane, Laos, 1990: “You do not understand … there is a greater destiny for our foreign policy in Asia and the POWs are expendable in pursuit of that policy.”
The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWs in the Vietnam War (The U.S. Navy and The Vietnam War)
The unconventional nature of the war and the unforgiving environment of Southeast Asia inflicted special hardships on the Vietnam-era POWs, whether they spent captivity in the jungles of the South, or the jails of the North. This book describes their experiences – the similarities and the differences – and how
