First heroes : the POWs left behind in Vietnam / Rod Colvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colvin, Rod, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.

Prisoners of war.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Missing in action--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Prisoners and prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Omaha, Nebraska : Addicus Books, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>The result of five years of research, <I>First Heroes</I> untangles an intricate web of information and ultimately concludes that the prisoners of war that were held captive in Southeast Asia were forgotten or ignored by their own country. Author Rod Colvin crisscrossed the country interviewing military and government officials, veterans, returned POWs, political figures, journalists, and members of the National League of Families and the National Forget-Me-Not Association and balances hard facts with the dramatic personal accounts of parents, w

Contents:

19 Maureen Dunn20 Marian Shelton; 21 Lynn Standerwick; 22 Sue Sullivan; 23 Kay Bosiljevac; 24 Dermot Foley; Afterword; Bibliography; Appendix; About The Author

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Irvington Publishers, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2013).

ISBN:

1-940495-15-6

OCLC:

868917826