Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War by Tom Philpott

Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War

Tom Philpott

496 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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On March 26, 1964, barely four months after arriving in Vietnam, Special Forces Captain Floyd "Jim" Thompson was captured by the Vietcong. He would spend the next nine years in jungle cages and dark prison cells, attempting escape five times, and ...

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