2,355 Days: A POW's Story
This memoir of a prisoner of war in North Vietnam between 1966 and 1973 is proof of the endless variety of the human species. Other personal histories that have come from these appalling surroundings, like those of Everett Alvarez Jr. ( Chained Eagle, LJ 11/1/89), Geoffrey Norman ( Bouncing Back, LJ 8/90), and others, have their own perceptions of imprisonment and torture by an implacable foreign enemy. Nasmyth recalls his brutal treatment and isolation in a thoroughly individual way with intelligent but unvarnished insights and irrepressible humor. He catches an authentic flavor in conversations remembered between prisoners; even the personalities those words reveal are wholly individual. A lively memoir, valuable as a history of the POW experience, and for what it says about the human spirit.- Mel D. Lane, Sacramento, Cal.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.