An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia

by Bill Hendon

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The dramatic history of living American soldiers left in Vietnam, and the first full account of the circumstances that left them there. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, this book makes a convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of 25 years of research, it exposes the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North show more Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973 and what these men have endured since. This is a history of America's leaders in their worst hour; of life-and-death decision making based on politics, not intelligence; and of men lost to their families and the country they serve, betrayed by their own leaders.--From publisher description. show less

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A very in-depth look at the men we left behind in Vietnam. Gets well into politics but would have to to explain in such great detail. I did not buy this book but borrowed from the Poland Public Library however it is a book I want to buy for my personal library.

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