ROWE : Five years to freedom (fülszöveg)
OCTOBER 29, 1963: The Viet Cong captured Special Forces Major James N. Rowe during a sudden firefight in South Vietnam. For five years, Major Rowe survived absolutely staggering conditions of filth, disease, hunger and constant psychological pressure to "confess his crimes," plus two scheduled execution dates and severe punishment for three attempts at escape.
FIVE YEARS TO FREEDOM is the terrifying yet fascinating story of his five years as a prisoner of the Viet Cong, written by Major Rowe himself as an overwhelming rebuttal to the Viet Cong's claims of "leniency" and "`humanitarianism" toward American prisoners of war. It stands at once as a monumental tribute to the courage and fortitude of one man against a totalitarian system and as the first comprehensive account ever published about the real situation in the Viet Cong POW camps in South Vietnam. Its excruciating evidence will impress upon its readers as never before the desperate need to get our POW's home as soon as possible.
Major Rowe endured skin fungus, dysentery, arm and leg irons, mosquitoes, hepatitis, cockroaches and fleas, rotten fish and rice, exhaustion, beriberi, jaundice, beatings, and one by one the deaths of his fellow American prisoners. He tells of the daily twisting and stamping of his hopes and mind by the guards and political cadre who alternately poked and pried, pushed and hinted, bullied and sympathized in their efforts to break their prisoner.
DECEMBER 31, 1968: under incredible circumstances of luck, skill, and determination, James N. Rowe escaped. For some reason hardly understood by the author himself, he never capitulated to his captors.
In a letter, the author has said: "There are men who did not live to return home. There are men who are, at this moment, enduring the same pain, anguish and frustrations that I lived through. These are men who have no voice, no one to listen to their cries but their God. It is for them that I wrote this book. . . . It is our story, as American fighting men, struggling to exist on a battlefield more terrifying than any we've faced before . . . one that might be found here in our country and our people are not prepared for its horrors."
FIVE YEARS TO FREEDOM by Major James N. Rowe. There are still hundreds of Americans missing in action and in the prisons of North and South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. What is happening to them?
Major James N. Rowe was born and brought up in McAllen, Texas, and graduated from West Point in 1960. After graduation he completed the Special Forces training cycle and studied Chinese (Mandarin) at the Army Language School. Subsequently he underwent increasingly sophisticated training, including self-defense and survival, which enabled him to exist in the prison camps and finally to escape.
Since returning to the United States, he has resumed military schooling, and through radio, television, films, speeches and briefings, has been active in efforts to focus the attention of the American people on the plight of Americans still held prisoner by the Communist forces in Vietnam.
He is now married and lives in Sherwood Forest, Maryland.
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