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020 $a9781250006530 (hardback)
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050 00 $aDS559.4$b.T69 2014
082 00 $a959.704/37$223
100 1 $aTownley, Alvin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aDefiant :$bthe POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned /$cAlvin Townley.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 418 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the inmates of the Hanoi Hilton and other POW camps developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, the North Vietnamese singled out its eleven leaders, Vietnam's own "dirty dozen," and banished them to an isolated jail that would become known as Alcatraz. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed; one would never return. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW/MIA movement. When the survivors finally returned, one would receive the Medal of Honor, another became a U.S. Senator, and a third still serves in Congress. A story of survival and triumph in the vein of Unbroken and Band of Brothers, Defiant by Alvin Townley will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith, and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [393]-401) and index.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xPrisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zVietnam$vBiography.
650 0 $aMilitary spouses$zUnited States$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hDS559.4$i.T69 2014