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Defiant:The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the
Alvin Townley
St. Martin's Griffin
February 2015
On Sale: February 10, 2015
ISBN: 1250060338
EAN: 9781250060334
Kindle: B00GL3SUZW
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Non-Fiction History
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American
prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and
horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese guards and
interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military
intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their
Code of Conduct, the POWs developed a powerful underground
resistance. To quash it, their captors 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 eleven men suffered in Hanoi, their wives at home
launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately
spark the nationwide POW/MIA movement. The members of these
military families banded together and showed the courage not
only to endure years of doubt about the fate of their
husbands and fathers, but to bravely fight for their safe
return. When the survivors of Alcatraz finally came home,
one veteran would go on to receive the Medal of Honor,
another would become a U.S. Senator, and a third still
serves in the U.S. Congress. A powerful story of survival and triumph, Alvin Townley's
Defiant will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith,
and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations.
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