
By Sam Johnson,Jan Winebrenner,Rod Keitz
Col. Samuel R. Johnson, U.S. Air strength, was once shot down in April, 1966, whereas flying his twenty-fifth project over North Vietnam. almost immediately after his trap and imprisonment within the notorious Hanoi Hilton, Colonel Johnson was once categorized a diehard by means of his enemies. His artistic and leading edge resistance of legal authority earned him banishment to the high-security felony unit the place, unknown to U.S. army intelligence, Ho Chi Minh saved the 11 prisoners believed to be a major danger to his struggle efforts. for 2 years Johnson and the opposite ten persisted leg irons, malnutrition, and appallingly primitive stipulations whereas imprisoned in tiny booths inbuilt the earthen-walled facility dug out of the heart courtyard of North Vietnam's Ministry of protection in downtown Hanoi.
Captive Warriors is the tale of Alcatraz, the place braveness and humor thrived amid the insanity. it's the tale of Colonel Johnson's seven-year conflict for his lifestyles, limbs, and sanity. it's the tale of the masses of captured warriors--American POWs--whose lives lay within the arms of offended and vengeful North Vietnamese captors. The booklet additionally chronicles America's trek into political confusion and chaos in the course of the process the Vietnam conflict.
More than a narrative, Captive Warriors is a tribute to the entire American prisoners of warfare who, with no good thing about the normal guns of struggle, waged day-by-day battles opposed to an insidious enemy disdainful of the necessities of the Geneva Conventions and who, in any case, grew to become the ultimate pawn within the peace payment that ended the longest battle in American history.
Read Online or Download Captive Warriors: A Vietnam POW's Story (Texas A & M University Military History Series 23) PDF
Similar military history books
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, by John C. McManus PDF
“A excellent book—an American similar to John Keegan’s The Face of conflict. I basically think that Grunts is destined to be a vintage. ”—Dave Grossman, writer of On Killing and On CombatFrom the acclaimed writer of The lifeless and people approximately to Die comes a sweeping narrative of six a long time of wrestle, and an eye-opening account of the evolution of the yank infantry.
The amphibious attack opposed to a defended seashore is absolutely explored from the viewpoint of the defender.
In accordance with the epic actual tale of the Chosin Reservoir crusade of the Korean struggle! within the wintry weather of 1950, deep in the frozen mountains of North Korea, 15,000 U. S. infantrymen and Marines have been surrounded and trapped through 120,000 chinese language infantrymen. regardless of the percentages, the Marines refused to give up and fought their method seventy eight miles to the ocean and rescued 98,000 refugees.
An army operation not like the other on American soil, Morgan's Raid was once characterised by means of great pace, superhuman patience and cutting edge strategies. one of many nation's so much colourful leaders, accomplice normal John Hunt Morgan, took his cavalry via enemy-occupied territory in 3 states in a single of the longest offensives of the Civil conflict.
- Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776
- To Lose a Battle: France 1940
- Charlie Chasers: History of USAF AC-119
- Intact: A First-Hand Account of the D-Day Invasion from a Fifth Rangers Company Commander
Additional resources for Captive Warriors: A Vietnam POW's Story (Texas A & M University Military History Series 23)
Example text
Captive Warriors: A Vietnam POW's Story (Texas A & M University Military History Series 23) by Sam Johnson,Jan Winebrenner,Rod Keitz
by Edward
4.1