From The Shadow of Death: Stories of POWs

The stories of eight former prisoners of war, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, released by Viet Nam after years of captivity, based on interviews with them, and with the wife of a still missing man. Photographs. Index.

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