Bouncing Back: How a Heroic Band of Pows Survived Vietnam

Recounts the capture and imprisonment of Al Stafford, relating the torture, humiliation, and loneliness he endured, how he resisted the Vietnamese efforts to break him, and his life in the U.S. following his release

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