The Hanoi Commitment

Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America’s Longest-Held Prisoner of War

Glory Denied is the harrowing and heroic story of Floyd “Jim” Thompson, captured in March 1964, who became the longest-held prisoner of war in American history. Tom Philpott juxtaposes Thompson’s capture, torture, and multiple escape attempts with the trials of his young wife, Alyce, who, feeling trapped, made choices that forever

Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative

Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape, and The Hanoi Hilton, and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the POW story holds a special place in American culture. Robert Doyle’s remarkable study shows why it has retained such enormous power to move and instruct us. Long after wartime, memories of captivity

Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War

Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well

Code of Conduct

An Inspirational Story of Self-Healing by the Famed Ex-Pow and War Hero Writing with Schreiner ( Mayday! Mayday! ), former Navy pilot Alvarez reports on his 1973 return to the U.S. after eight years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. The same patriotism and sense of duty that informed Chained

The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese

This is one of the most memorable books to come out of the Vietnam War in which General Robbie Risner describes with moving candor the years of pain and deprivation he endured as as a POW in Vietnam. His is the real story of what went on in the prison

Other Books You Might Be Interested In

Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America’s Longest-Held Prisoner of War

Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative

Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War

Code of Conduct

The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese

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