Six Years in Hell: A Returned Vietnam POW Views Captivity, Country, and the Future

Six Years In Hell” is the memoir of Jay R. Jensen’s 6 years as a POW during the Vietnam War. He was in such places as “The Zoo” and “The Hanoi Hilton”. He talks of the struggles, hope and fears, and moral dilemmas they faced.

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