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Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
In this landmark study, two respected scholars provide a comprehensive, balanced, and authoritative account of what happened to the nearly eight hundred Americans captured during the Vietnam War. The authors were granted unprecedented access to previously unreleased materials and interviewed more than a hundred former POWs to meticulously reconstruct their captivity record
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Published
January 15th 2013
by US Naval Institute Press
(first published January 1st 1998)
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The book tells the story of the Vietnam War from the point of view of the men (and women) captured and held prisoner during the conflict. It traces the backstory of French occupation into and through American involvement.
Some things, descriptions of torture and maltreatment will leave you horrified, even tearful. The bias is obviously American and reflects the values of our culture.
It is an account of this time in recent history which will stay w/the reader for a long time.
Some things, descriptions of torture and maltreatment will leave you horrified, even tearful. The bias is obviously American and reflects the values of our culture.
It is an account of this time in recent history which will stay w/the reader for a long time.
This is a great book and should be required reading for anyone interested in the Vietnam war.
This book was such a gut wrenching book to read. All the torture, starvation and unbelievable tactics the Vietnamese tried to break our soldiers--physically, spiritually and psychologically by using every means possible for our soldiers to turn their backs on a country they loved so dearly--The United States despite the fact they knew their captors would do anything to extract information.
The personal stories all the prisoners that were held for years each one of them I hold dear to me despite t ...more
The personal stories all the prisoners that were held for years each one of them I hold dear to me despite t ...more
This book will break your heart. It was well done, but the facts it presented made me want to throw up.
This book is GIGANTIC. It is comprehensive, drawing on private interviews, post-Homecoming files, and about every published piece of literature on the POWs of the Vietnam War.
It delves into the lives in both North and South Vietnam, and it doesn't shy away from the heartache, nor does it go out of its way to overly-glorify the POWs. It attempts to present the facts in as fair a light as possible. I quite frankly loved it (Even though a third of this book is notes and appendices, holy cow).
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It delves into the lives in both North and South Vietnam, and it doesn't shy away from the heartache, nor does it go out of its way to overly-glorify the POWs. It attempts to present the facts in as fair a light as possible. I quite frankly loved it (Even though a third of this book is notes and appendices, holy cow).
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This might be the USGPO edition. I have two different editions, each is outstanding.
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