The Raid
Subtitle: The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: June 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780345446961
Subjects: History / Military / Vietnam War; Military - Vietnam War; History; History - Military / War; Campaigns; Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese; Sontay Raid, 1970; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Military
First sentence: In North Vietnam early in 1970, Air Force Captain Wes Schierman was fighting for his life in a cold, dingy, cramped prison just west of a small town called Son Tay Citadel.