This is a compelling true story about a woman reporter for UPI who during the Vietnam war was captured by the Viet Cong and lived to tell about it.
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The decade that followed James Stockdale’s seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at

In early 1973 Vietnam released 591 American POWs in Operation Homecoming as part of the Paris Peace Accord. There were always suspicions that not all POWs were accounted for. For nearly twenty years between 1973 and 1993 the POW families petitioned the American government to negotiate with Vietnam to locate any POWs

Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never

Describes the ordeal of Major Fred Cherry, who was shot down in combat over Vietnam and spent seven-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. Post Views: 586