For many Americans, the POWs' return home marks the final chapter of the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. South Vietnam falls to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. After thirty years of ...

South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl ... The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, is out this month. “He somehow figured out the way ...

In many ways, the violent experiences of the approximately 200,000 to 300,000 communist prisoners in South Vietnam can be compared to those of McCain. On both sides, prisoners were tortured ...

The French occupiers of Vietnam had ... located a few miles south of Hanoi, after its filth and poor condition. After 1971 the prison became a place of banishment for POWs who did not cooperate ...

who was from a tiny town in eastern South Dakota, barely got through high school, but he was a smart guy, and he figured it out,” says Marc Leepson, whose new book, the first biography of Hegdahl, The ...