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Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton

By Hawk, Amy Shively

Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton

By Hawk, Amy Shively

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"In 1967, US Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home, his beloved girlfriend Nancy eventually moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively contemplated suicide. Yet somehow he found hope--and he became determined to help his fellow POWs survive.In a newspaper interview several years after his release, Shively said, "I had the opportunity to be captured, the opportunity to be interrogated, the opportunity to be tortured and the experience of answering questions under torture. It was an extremely humiliating experience. I felt sorry for myself. But I learned the hard way life isn't fair. Life is only what you make of it."Written by Shively's stepdaughter Amy Hawk--whose mother Nancy ultimately reunited with and married Shively in a triumphant love story--and based on extensive audio recordings and Shively's own journals, Six Years at the Hanoi Hilton is a haunting, riveting portrayal of life as an American prisoner of war trapped on the other side of the world."--Jacket flap.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2017-03-13
Publication Date:
2017-03-13
Publisher:
Skyhorse Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1621575101
ISBN13:
9781621575108
Weight:
463 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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