Glenn Robins

Broschiertes Buch

The Longest Rescue

The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson

Beschreibung

While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps, including the notorious Briarpatch and various compounds at Cu Loc, known by the inmates as the Zoo. No enlisted man in American military history has been held as a prisoner of war longer

Autor

Glenn Robins, professor of history at Georgia Southwestern State University, is editor of They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry and coeditor of America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780813166216
• ISBN-10: 0813166217
• Artikelnr.: 42740574