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portada The Unlikely War Hero: One Vietnam War Pow's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
320
Encuadernación
Tapa Dura
ISBN13
9780811772921

The Unlikely War Hero: One Vietnam War Pow's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton (en Inglés)

Marc Leepson (Autor) · Stackpole Books · Tapa Dura

The Unlikely War Hero: One Vietnam War Pow's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton (en Inglés) - Leepson, Marc

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On April 6, 1967, twenty-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell off his ship, a guided-missile cruiser, in the Gulf of Tonkin. Close to exhaustion after nearly four hours in the water, he was picked up by a small fishing book and soon found himself in Hỏa Lò Prison, the notorious North Vietnamese POW camp the prisoners called the Hanoi Hilton. Under intense interrogation, Hegdahl pretended to be a country bumpkin who could barely read or write. His captors fell for the ruse, calling him "The Incredibly Stupid One." But Doug Hegdahl was far from stupid. Possessing a razor-sharp memory, during the next two years he memorized the names of 254 fellow prisoners and senior officers ordered him to accept an early release. After coming home in August 1969, Hegdahl shocked his debriefers by rattling off the names of the men. Hanoi had admitted holding only a few dozen, although the U.S. military had reliable intel on scores of others. With Hegdahl's names, 63 missing servicemen were reclassified to Prisoners of War.But that's not all. In addition to divulging the names, Doug Hegdahl told the Pentagon about the systematic torturing of the American POWs in Hanoi and reported many other hitherto unknown details about life inside the Hanoi POW camps. The new information became an important factor in North Vietnam's fall 1969 decision to make life immeasurably easier for the 500-plus POWs held in Hanoi and assuaged the doubts and fears of dozens of POW families.In a vividly written book based on archival research, personal interviews, and his experiences in the Vietnam War, Marc Leepson tells the incredible tale of the youngest and lowest-ranking American POW captured in North Vietnam. Doug Hegdahl has never been properly recognized for his extraordinary efforts, and his story has never been fully told. It's a story of survival--has own and scores of POWs. As a U.S. Navy historian put it: the North Vietnamese "made a bad mistake when they released Seaman Doug Hegdahl."

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