wolfkill grant rose jerry (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket. 2nd Printing. 377pp 8vo. Vietnam War.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Second printing [stated]. 377, [3] pages. Dust jacket is soiled and has small tears, chips and creases. Pencil erasure residue on fep. The book contains a Foreword by Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The author worked for NBC as a field producer. While with NBC, Grant was assigned to cover a pending peace conference in Laos. His helicopter was shot down over Laos, and he, the pilot Army Captain Edward R. Shore, Jr. and a Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John P. McMorrow were captured, imprisoned and shackled for fifteen-months by the communist Pathet Lao. He was released on August 17, 1962 with Shore and McMorrow, along with Special Forces Sergeant Orville R. Ballenger and Army Major Lawrence R. Bailey. From the start, he and his two fellow captives were subject to continuous torture and abuse. Under enormous physical and psychic pressure, Wolfkill was determined to lie--an if necessary, die--with honor. His story is a harrowing account of one American's survival under the most savage and humiliating conditions. It is also a testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit. Derived from a Kirkus review: Wolfkill, an NBC film newsman, was captured by the Pathet Lao forces in Laos in 1961. This is the story of the unmerciful treatment he and a handful of co-captives endured. Wolfkill was 38 at the time, several years older than his fellow prisoners, and in some ways acted as a leader. For this President Kennedy awarded him the Medal of Freedom. Perhaps the most revealing comment about prisoner conditions in the Far East is that prisoners are always kept in darkness. Guards would shut out all light. For eight months he and three other Americans were kept in stocks in their jerry-rigged prison room. During this time a kind of peace was in effect among the several contending forces, but the prisoners seldom received any news. Their guards were almost universally subhuman, given to torturing prisoners with false bayonet stabs and firing off guns beside their ears. Wolfkill leaves no scabrous detail unpicked and his language is as frank as any in print. The final release of the prisoners is movingly depicted.