Air Force Academy Series: Exciting true-adventure stories of heroic airmen and classic air rescue missions in World Wars I and II, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
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 Post Views: 900
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 Post Views: 774
Christian G. Appy’s monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war’s path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to
Battered, but not broken. For nearly eight years, Paul Kari was beaten, tortured, starved, and held captive in squalid jungle prisons as one of the more than 600 American POWs of the Vietnam War. Two things kept hope for the Ohio farm boy turned U.S. Air Force fighter pilot: His
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
