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Web Links>The History of the Vietnam War>POW/MIA
Prisoners of War/Missing in Action
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| Books & Magazine Articles--A Selected Bibliography |
Alexander, Caroline. "Across the River Styx." The New Yorker (October 25, 2004): 44-51.
Alvarez,
Everett,Jr. and Anthony S. Pitch. Chained Eagle. New York: Donald I.
Fine, 1989.
Anton, Frank and Tommy Denton. Why Didn't You Get Me Out?: Betrayal in
the Viet Cong Death Camps; the Truth About Heroes, Traitors, and Those Left
Behind. Arlington, Tex.: Summit, 1997.
Bailey, Lawrence R., Jr. Solitary Survivor: The First POW in Southeast
Asia. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1995.
Blakey, Scott. Prisoner at War: The Survival of Commander Richard A. Stratton.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978.
Brace, Ernest C. A Code to Keep: The True Story of America's Longest-Held
Civilian Prisoner of War. New York: St. Martin's,1988.
Cayer, Marc. Prisoner in Vietnam. Washington, D. C. : Asia Resource
Cenetr, 1990.
Chesley, Larry. Seven Years in Hanoi: A POW Tells His Story. Salt Lake
City: Bookcraft, 1973.
Clark, Marjorie A. Captive on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Chicago: Moody
Press, 1974.
Coffee, Gerald. Beyond Survival: Building on the Hard Times--A POW's Inspiring
Story. New York: Putnam, 1990.
Daly, James A., and Lee Bergman. A Hero's Welcome: The Conscience of Sergeant
James Daly Versus the United States Army. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,
1975.
David, Heather. Operation: Rescue. New York: Pinnacle, 1971.
Dengler, Dieter. Escape from Laos. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press,
1996.
Denton, Jeremiah A. When Hell Was in Session. New York: Reader's Digest
Press, 1976.
Dramesi, John A. Code of Honor. New York: Norton, 1975.
Dudman, Richard. Forty Days with the Enemy. New York: Liveright, 1971.
Gaither, Ralph. With God in a POW Camp. Nashville: Broadman, 1973.
Grant, Zalin. Survivors. New York: Norton, 1975.
Groom, Winston, and Duncan Spencer. Conversations with the Enemy: The Story
of Pfc Robert Garwood. New York: Putnam, 1983.
Guarino, Evelyn
and Carol Jose. Saved by Love. Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Blue Note Books,
2001.
Guarino, Larry. A POW's Story: 2801 Days in Hanoi. New York: Ivy, 1990.
Guenon, William
A. Secret and Dangerous: Night of the So’n Tây POW Raid.
East Lowell, Mass.: Wagon Wings Press at King Print. Co., 2005.
Heslop, J. Malan and Dell R. Van Orden. From the Shadows of Death: Stories
of POWs. Salt Lake City: Deseret Books, 1973.
Hirsch, James S. Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship that Saved Two POWs in Vietnam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Howren, Jamie
and Taylor Baldwin Kiland. Open
Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later. Washington, D.C.:
Potomac Books, 2005.
Hubbell, John G. P.O.W.: A Definitive History of the American Prisoner-of-War
Experience in Vietnam, 1964-1973. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Jensen, Jay. Six Years in Hell: A Returned POW Views Captivity, Country,
and the Nation's Future. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1974.
Jensen-Stevenson., Monika. Spite House: The Last Secret of the War in Vietnam.
New York: Norton, 1997. (Bobby Garwood)
Johnson, Sam and Jan Winebrenner. Captive Warriors: A Vietnam POW's Story.
College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University, 1992.
Kilbourne, Jimmy W. Escape and Evasion: 17 True Stories of Downed Pilots
Who Make It Back. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
McDaniel, Dorothy
Howard. After the Hero's Welcome: A POW Wife's Story of the Battle Against
a New Enemy. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1991.
McDaniel, Eugene B., and James L. Johnson. Before Honor. Philadelphia:
A.J. Holman, 1975.
(Also called Scars and Stripes: The True Story of One Man's Courage in
Facing Death as a Vietnam POW [Irvine, Calif.: Harvest House, 1975])
McDaniel, Norman A. Yet Another Voice. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1975.
McGrath, John M. Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi. Annapolis, Md.:
Naval Institute Press, 1975.
Miller, Carolyn P. Captured!. Chappaqua, N.Y.: Christian Herald Books,
1977.
Mulligan, James A. The Hanoi Commitment. Virginia Beach, Va.: RIF Marketing,
1981.
Nasmyth, Spike. 2355 Days: A POW's Story. New York: Orion Books, 1991.
Nasmyth, Virginia, and Spike Nasmyth. Hanoi Release John Nasmyth: A Family
Love Story. Santa Paula, Calif.: V. Parr Publishers, 1984.
Norman, Geoffrey. Bouncing Back: How A Heroic Band of POWs Survived Vietnam.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1990.
Patterson, Charles J., and G. Lee Tippin. The Heroes Who Fell from Grace:
The True Story of Operation Lazarus, the Attempt to Free American POWs from
Laos in 1982. Canton, Ohio: Daring Books, 1985.
Philpott, Tom. Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held
Prisoner of War. New York: Norton, 2001.
I'm No Hero. Independence, Mo. Independence Press, 1973.
Purcell, Ben and Anne Purcell. Love and Duty. New York: St. Martin's,
1992.
Risner, Robinson. The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner
of the North Vietnamese. New York: Random House, 1973.
Rowan, Stephen A. They Wouldn't Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their
Story. Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David, 1973.
Rowe, James N. Five Years to Freedom. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
Rutledge, Howard, and Phyllis Rutledge. In the Presence of Mine Enemies,
1965-1973: A Prisoner of War. Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell, 1973.
Schemmer, Benjamin F. The Raid. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Schwinn, Monika, and Bernhard Diehl. We Came to Help. New York: Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich, 1976.
Smith, George. P.O.W.: Two Years with the Viet Cong. Berkeley, Calif.:
Ramparts Press, 1971.
Smith, Philip E. and Peggy Herz. Journey Into Darkness. New York: Pocket
Books, 1992.
Stockdale, James B. A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection.
Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1984.
Stockdale, James B., and Sybil Stockdale. In Love and War: The Story of
a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years. New York: Harper
& Row, 1984.
Swift, Earl.
Where They Lay: Searching for America's Lost Soldiers. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin, 2003.
Veith, George J. Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue
Efforts During the Vietnam War. New York: Free Press, 1998.
Webb, Kate. On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong. New York:
Quadrangle, 1972.
Wyatt, Barbara Powers and Captain Frederick Wyatt, eds. We Came Home.
Toluca Lake, Calif.: P.O.W. Publications, 1977
For additional information, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing
About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.
| Websites |
Advocacy
and Intelligence Index for Prisoners of War-Missing in Action
This website provides news, updates, and alerts relating to the POW/MIA
issue. Also included is a monthly summary of events and an e-mail network.
The main archives and issues
section is particularly useful for its interactive databases, documents,
and reports.
Canadian POW/MIA
Information Center
The information center is a non-profit organization dedicated to informing
the general public about the POW/MIA situation. The site provides a newsletter
with a archive of past issues, photographs of the Canadian memorial, poetry,
and updates on the search for the missing in Vietnam.
Defense
POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
The information assembled on the DPMO website
assists users in understanding the U.S. Government effort to achieve the
fullest possible accounting of our missing in action from all wars. U.S.
military and civilian personnel are at work daily in locations across
the globe, seeking information from our former enemies. Additional case-specific
information, both classified and unclassified, is available to the primary
next-of-kin of missing Americans. See also:
Russian-American Joint Commission On Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
and Joint
Task Force Full-Accounting.
The
National Alliance of POW-MIA Families
The Alliance works to close the cases of those missing from World War II,
the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, and the Gulf War and to keep
the issue in the public eye. The organization's website features news on ongoing
efforts.
Open
Doors: Vietnam POWs 30 Years Later
Open Doors is a website for a book of photographs and personal stories
of American POWs held in Vietnam during the war. The website includes a sample
chapter, web links, and information on the photo gallery. The book is written
by Taylor Baldwin Kiland with photographs by Jamie Howren and published by
Potomac Books, ISBN: 1574889699.
POW/MIA Forum
The POW/MIA Forum is committed to the fullest possible accounting of the missing
from the Vietnam War. Their website provides documents, satellite imagery,
information on the history POW/MIA policy, the POW/MIA flag, Operation Just
Cause, and the Last Firebase--useful information for understanding this point
of view.
Return
with Honor
Return with Honor is part of PBS' American Experience series. This
episode is about American fighter pilots held as prisoners of war in North
Vietnam. PBS says, "Told by the men themselves, the film is "a major
shift in the screen image of the Vietnam veteran," according to the New
York Times . More than 20 veterans describe their captivity and their struggle
to survive mentally and physically, and return with honor. Their moving accounts
are combined with archival footage from Vietnam and the United States to create
an inspiring tale of personal heroism." The
website includes a timeline, gallery, teacher's guide, first-person accounts,
background notes on the film, primary source material, a transcript of the
program, a bibliography of resource materials, and an experts' forum. A valuable
resource.
Sons
and Daughters In Touch
A group of sons, daughters, and other family members of those who died or
are missing from the Vietnam War have created a website to promote healing
via networking and special projects and to create an awareness of the historical
and emotional legacy of the war.
United
States Central Indentificaion Laboratory
The mission of the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CILHI)
is to search for, recover and identify personnel unaccounted-for from World
War II, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Vietnam War. This useful website
provides information on searches in progress, results, and new tools for identification.
Vietnam-Era
POW/MIA Database
The Library of Congress provides a searchable POW/MIA and casualty database
in addition to documentation on Task Force Russia, the investigation into
U.S. prisoners of war held in Russia.
Additional sites relating to the POW/MIA issue may be found at:
The History of the Vietnam War POW/MIA Flag
Hunting the Phonies
The Last Patrol
Not All MIAs From War Were Lost in Vietnam
Operation Black Flag
Operation Homecoming
Operation Just Cause
Operation Just Cause (U.S. Army)
Pete Matthes: Left in Vietnam
Phonies and Wannabe's: A Nationwide Epidemic
POW/MIA Advocates
POW/MIA Memorial Page
POW/MIA Resource Guide
P.O.W. Network
The Report of the Senate Select Committee on POW MIA Affairs
Special Forces Search Engine: POW-MIA
U.S. POW MIAs in Southeast Asia
