Why Didn't You Get Me Out?: A POW's Nightmare in Vietnam

Denton, Tommy,Anton, Frank

ISBN 10: 0312974884 / ISBN 13: 9780312974886

Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Didn't You Get Me Out?: A POW's Nightmare in Vietnam
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312974884
• ISBN 13: 9780312974886
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Frank anton went to Vietnam in 1967 to serve the country he loved. Now, more than thirty years later, he tells the story of how his own government failed him...

For give hellish years, American soldier Frank Anton was held as a POW in Vietnam. Subject to disease, starvation, and physical and psychological torture, Anton and his fellow prisoners held out hope that the U.S. government would find and rescue them.

When he was finally freed in 1973, Anton returned to the United States bruised and battered. And the most devastating blow of all had yet to even be struck. Upon his release, Anton and debriefed by the government and saw both aerial photographs of the prison camps where he was held and a close-us picture of himself walking the grueling Ho Chi Minh Trail. The government had known all along where and when Anton and his fellow soldiers were being held--and made no attempt to rescue them.

now, in this harrowing first-person account and shocking expose, Frank Anton recounts his years as a POW and the aftermath--devoting his life to understanding why and how his own government left him and others to suffer and possibly die in the Vietnamese prison camps. And the answers he's uncovered will forever astound and disturb you.

With eight pages of dramatic photos
A main selection of the Military Book Club