Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton: An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in Vietnam
✍ Scribed by Hawk, Amy Shively
- Book ID
- 109863254
- Publisher
- Brisance Books Group LLC
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 831 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781621575566
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
With a foreword by Senator John McCain.
In 1967, U.S. 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 girlfriend 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 the will to survive--and he became determined to help his fellow POWs.
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...