Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW (original 1971; edition 1984)

by James N. Rowe (Author)

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When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.… (more)

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Title:	Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW
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Five Years to Freedom by James N. Rowe (1971)

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The New Face of War by Malcolm W. Browne (paulkid)
paulkid: At the end of "New Face of War", Browne gives a great description of the politics of indoctrination employed by the VC and the National Liberation Front. In "Five Years to Freedom", Rowe describes his experience of such an (attempted) indoctrination and his resistance to it.… (more)

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Striving to be faithful to his military code of honor, Rowe must evade his captors' demands while keeping his conscience intact and himself alive. This book gives the most exhaustive details about interrogation techniques used by the Viet Cong/NVA. Rowe gives the fatalistic sense of overwhelming despair which prisoners were meant to experience or else capitulate to the demands of their torturers. (

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When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.

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