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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War

✍ Scribed by Henderson, Bruce

Book ID: 109477779
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 971 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780061571374

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✦ Synopsis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary (Little Dieter Needs to Fly) and a motion picture (Rescue Dawn, starring Christian Bale), and now receives its book treatment from Bruce Henderson, who served with Dengler in Vietnam.

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