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Genre/Form: | Biographies Personal narratives Biography Personal narratives, American |
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Named Person: | Leo Thorsness; Leo Thorsness |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leo Thorsness |
ISBN: | 9781594035203 1594035202 |
OCLC Number: | 1082452126 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xviii, 132 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Medal of Honor Mission -- Shot Down -- What I Brought With Me -- Down the Mountain -- Tap Code -- A Day in the Life of -- Dinnertime -- Bad Medicine -- Walking Home -- The Medal of Honor -- Solo -- The Question of Freedom -- Boredom -- Prison Science -- The Lord's Prayer -- Hanoi Hilton Extension Courses -- The Home Front -- Prison Talk -- Mike's Flag -- Christmas 1972 -- Leaving Hell -- Home. |
Responsibility: | Leo Thorsness ; with a new introduction by Scott Johnson. |
Abstract:
Capture-to-repatriation memoir of an U.S. Air Force combat pilot who spent six years as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War.
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