Captive Warriors: A Vietnam POW's Story (Texas A & M University Military History Series 23)
Among prisoner of war memoirs, which all remind us of the brutality of war and the staggering toll it takes on the individual, Vietnam POW accounts are especially powerful reminders of what the ordinary soldier is sometimes forced to endure. Johnson, presently a Congressman from Texas, was an Air Force pilot shot down over North Vietnam in 1966. He spent the next seven years of his life in brutally inhumane conditions that tested his strength and will to survive in ways he never believed possible. His personal struggle, assisted by the love and compassion of his fellow POWs, forms the heart and soul of the book. Captive Warriors is as fine a work as James and Sybil Stockdale's In Love and War ( LJ 8/84) and Chained Eagle ( LJ 11/1/89) by Everett Alvarez Jr. and Anthony S. Pitch. Recommended for Vietnam collections.- John R. Vallely, Siena Coll. Lib., Loudonville, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.