An account of the experiences of Marine PFC Robert Garwood as a prisoner of war in Vietnam explores the controversy over a man accused of collaboration with the Viet Cong
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An account of the experiences of Marine PFC Robert Garwood as a prisoner of war in Vietnam explores the controversy over a man accused of collaboration with the Viet Cong
This invaluable A–Z reference work presents nearly 300 entries that survey the history of prisoners of war and interned civilians from the earliest times to the present, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Medical conditions, international law, exchanges of prisoners, organizations working on behalf of POWs, and trials
Neophyte missionaries to Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. The Vietnam War has slopped over into Laos and is taking a horrific toll. Lloyd and Sam are taken prisoners of the Communist North Vietnamese Army. Follow them as they journey into the Eye of the Tempest. Post Views: 303
Perry Luckett and Charles Byler have written the first biography of Col. James Kasler, who is the only three-time recipient of the Air Force Cross, the second highest medal for wartime valor. Kasler served as an eighteen-year-old B-29 tail gunner in World War II, became a legendary jet ace in
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of
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