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american prisoners of war

Two souls indivisible

the friendship that saved two POWs in Vietnam
2004
Describes the imprisonment, friendship, and release of two Vietnam prisoners of war, Fred Cherry, the first African-American officer captured by the Vietnamese, and Porter Halyburton, a racist southerner, and how they overcame their differences to survive.

Hero found

the greatest POW escape of the Vietnam War
2011
The true story of how Dieter Dengler, a US Navy pilot, led a daring mass escape from a prison camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War.

Into the mouth of the cat

the story of Lance Sijan, hero of Vietnam
1985
Describes the gallant struggle of an Air Force pilot shot down over Loas in 1967.

Into the mouth of the cat

the story of Lance Sijan, hero of Vietnam
1986
Describes the gallant struggle of an Air Force pilot shot down over Laos in 1967.

A soldier's book

1998
A fictional diary of Union soldier Ira Cahill Stevens, telling of his feelings and experiences as an inmate in a desperately overcrowded Confederate prison camp in 1864.
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