SCARS & STRIPES…
…are what came to Navy Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel after his plane was shot down over North Vietnam. For six years he was a prisoner of the brutal Communists, and for all six years he found strength over despair through the power of God.
John M. McGrath, a young Navy pilot who was captured in 1967 after being shot down over Vietnam, vividly presents a straightforward and compelling tale of survival, of years of suffering, and of the human will to endure. During the era of the unpopular Vietnam War few issues united the
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
Eastern Iowa farm boy Dan Hefel tells of his military service during the Vietnam War with elaboration provided concerning combat in the jungles and mountains of South Vietnam as a member of the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), duty as a Huey helicopter door gunner, being taken prisoner and his survival
“With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story ― a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah
These are the stories of struggles for survival by two members of the same family, though 100 years apart and in two very different wars. One takes place during our country’s Civil War of 1861-1865 and follows the life of 17-year-old Union infantryman William Smith of the 13th Regiment of
