Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight
"In fact or fiction, the argument--from many of the senior POWs and from some cultural commentators--that the prisoners were the war's only true 'heroes' is one of real cultural and historical importance, for it will help determine in part what the overall 'text' of the Vietnam War is, how the overall event is connected and harmonized within older, larger American mythic narratives."--Thomas Myers, author ofWalking Point"[A] fascinating account....A penetrating account of the creation of memory and the uses of collective history."--Canadian Military History