num_pages: 320
description: From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found : the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary ( Little Dieter Needs to Fly ) and a motion picture ( Rescue Dawn starring Christian Bale) and now receives its book treatment from Bruce Henderson who served with Dengler in Vietnam.
language: English
title: Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
publisher: Harper