P.O.W. Two Years with the Vietcong

George Smith spent two years as a POW moving from camp to camp in the middle of the jungle. Impressed from the beginning by Vietcong military proficiency, he slowly overcame his Green Beret “arrogance” and learned to see the VC as people-warm, just, humane, sincere and so highly motivated that they seemed a different culture from the troops he was sent to train.

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