Describes the ordeal of Major Fred Cherry, who was shot down in combat over Vietnam and spent seven-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.
SUMMARY: The protagonist, a troubled and embittered Vietnam veteran, is a photojournalist for a struggling wire service. In 1986, he takes a photograph of a rock star. The next morning, three different callers claim the same man in the photo’s background is a long-missing relative and an MIA from the
The Heroes’ Wife is the story of Dora Smith Griffin Bell, who has been married to two heroes of the Vietnam War. Her first husband, a navy pilot, was shot down over Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh’s birthday, 1967 and captured. In this book Dora shares letters Jim Griffin wrote
The incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary (Little Dieter Needs to Fly)
This study examines the relationship between the efforts of the United States to achieve the fullest possible accounting of its prisoners of war and missing in action (POW/MIA), which resulted from the conflict in Vietnam, and subsequent diplomatic initiatives and the normalization of relations between the governments of both countries.
This monograph is a personal account of the author’s experiences as a prisoner of war. Major Newell was a 19-year old Army Enlisted Infantry man when captured in South Vietnam in 1967. His purpose is to provide his first impressions upon capture, relate his experiences, and provide lessons learned. His
