James “Jim” Mulligan’s story of his capture, imprisonment, and torment as a POW is a testimony to his, and other POW’s, heroic sacrifice for their country.
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
In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whose values exemplify the best of the human spirit.He illustrates these qualities with moving stories of triumph against the odds, hope in adversity, and sacrifices for a cause greater than self-interest. Among the
I’m No Hero is the autobiography of Captain J. Charles Plumb. It is also the detailed story of American POW’s in Viet Nam who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger and pain. More significantly, it is a story of hope for it deals directly with the techniques
When his electronic warfare plane, call sign Bat 21, was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after
