Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 706 pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Top board corners somewhat bumped. Slight soiling and library stamps to fore-edge. Rough spots inside the boards. Combines rigorous scholarly analysis with a moving narrative to record in detail the triumphs and tragedies of the several hundred servicemen and civilians who fought their own special war in prison camps in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Stuart I. Rochester (November 24, 1945 – July 29, 2009) was the chief historian for the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense and author and co-author of several books, including a notable account on American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Rochester was an authority on the comparative national defense policies of post-WW II presidential administrations. Frederick Kiley, a USAF veteran of the Vietnam War with a Ph.D. (University of Denver), taught for years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. From the Publisher: The authors trace the capture and movement of U.S. servicemen and civilians through jungles and jails from the Mekong Delta to Hanoi and west and north into Cambodia, Laos, and China. They cover the rationed food, cramped and rat-infested cells, bricked windows, and camps laced by barbed wire that were the daily lot of American POWs. They address a wide range of subjects from the physical ordeal of torture to the psychological challenges of indoctrination, exploitation for propaganda purposes, and the mere passing of time under the most adverse circumstances. In examining the lives of the prisoners in captivity, the book presents a vivid, sensitive, sometimes excruciating, and even humorous account of how men sought to cope with the physical and psychological torment of imprisonment under wretched and shameful conditions. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Escape, Everett Alvarez, Indochina, Jeremiah Denton, John McCain, Vietnam War, POW's, Laos, Geneva Convention, Hanoi Hilton, Torture, Nick Rowe, Antiwar Movement, Code of Conduct, Robert Garwood, Lawrence Guarino, Hoa lo, Interrogation, Douglas Hagda
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