Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973

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Summary: One of two important books on Vietnamese prisons
Review: This book reminds me why I'm able to walk freely within my country due to the efforts of those during the Hot/Cold War. I consider this book and "The Bamboo Chest", memoir by Frederick "Cork" Graham, to be the best books on Vietnam and communist prisons and our involvement taking the history from 1961 all the way to 1984 and showing how those who crippled our efforts to help defend Vietnam were only helping the communists overtake another nation and resulted in genocide of millions of Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians by their own supposed communist liberators. Lessons learned in our present time.

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Summary: Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1
Review: This book tells the story of Vietnam from the background of the war to the release of the prisoners in 1973. It is told dispassionately, but it brought me to tears many times. It stays in my mind: what these men went through, how they survived (or not) mentally and spiritually, the differences between the prisoners in North Vietnam and South Vietnam. It is an amazing book, and should be required reading for anyone studying that era.

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Summary: A Classic
Review: This book will long be regarded as a classic. I know of only one other comparable work, "The Long Gray Line" by Rick Atkinson. Honor these brave men by reading their compelling story.