BLAKEY : Prisoner at war (fülszöveg)
On January 5, 1967, Richard Allen Stratton was a cocky Navy pilot, known to his friends as "the Beak." An hour after take-off, on a combat mission over North Vietnam, he crashed and was taken prisoner.
In March, he was photographed hollow-eyed and bowing like a mechanical man at a press conference that announced his "confession" to heinous "war crimes." His captors called him "the mad bomber of Hanoi."
PRISONER AT WAR is the story of Richard Stratton's six-year ordeal and of the shocking treatment meted out to him and other American POWs by the North Vietnamese. It is the story, too, of Stratton's wife, Alice, and her struggle to hold her family together and keep faith that her husband was still alive; of Stratton's sister, Ellen, an anti-war activist, torn between social conscience and love for her brother; of people and events that swirled about a man whose photograph became a symbol to both Americans and Vietnamese in their harsh and bitter conflict.
PRISONER AT WAR is a book about a most painful separation, of the courage and stamina of a couple who loved each other and belíeved in their deliverance against almost impossible odds.
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