Betrayal recounts the 30-year saga of one man’s journey fighting to gain freedom for US prisoners of the Vietnam War, who were still in captivity for decades after the war’s end. That fight led him to work as an advocate for all US veterans against the injustices suffered by those who had honorably served.
How did a prisoner of war survive six years and eight months of soul-crushing imprisonment and torture in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War? By writing poetry. And how did he do it without pencil or paper? Then-captain John Borling ”wrote” and memorized poems to keep his mind sharp
An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate.The product of twenty-five years of research by
War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated center on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) to justify the lost struggle, mute national guilt, and sometimes even reject the reality of defeat
Code-Name Bright Light tells one of the great unknown stories of the Vietnam War: the American military’s extensive secret operations to locate and rescue POW/MIAs during the conflict. It is a tale of tragedy and heroism revealed in full for the first time in this volume. The history of the
A personal narrative revealing the physical torture, psychological pain, futile escape attempts, and great endurance of American prisoners of war in Vietnam Post Views: 699
