Autobiography, pilot POW possibly during vietman, ends up in China during captivity. Read around 2003.

[Megan]

The book was a plain brown hard cover, no picture. The man was a pilot and his plane was shot down. He ended up in China. I want to say it was during the Vietnam War.

Specifics I remember is he used pieces of paper he peeled from the wall the make a deck of cards. He ended up in the same hall as other Americans and they coughed in morse code to each other. They were made to stage being happy at a Thanksgiving dinner that was propaganda to show how well they were treated when they weren't. They had to sit at attention all day and he counted the jailers footsteps so he could exercise during their rounds.

That's all I can remember other than being greatly impressed by it as a teenager, 20 years ago haha! Thank you.