A Code to Keep: The True Story of America's Longest-Held Civilian Prisoner of War in Vietnam

Brace, Ernest C.

ISBN 10: 0312014031 / ISBN 13: 9780312014032

Edité par St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988

A propos de cet article

22 cm, 264, illus. Foreword by Senator John McCain. The author was a Chiang Mai-based civilian pilot for Bird and Son at the time of his capture in Laos in May 1965. He spent time in the same prison camp as Senator John McCain.

N° de réf. du vendeur 19651

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Code to Keep: The True Story of America's Longest-Held Civilian Prisoner of War in Vietnam
• Éditeur: St. Martin's Press, New York
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0312014031
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780312014032
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: very good, good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Indochina
  • POW's
  • Marines

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Synopsis

Book by Brace Ernest C

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the true story of a man's lonely triumph over adversity. Ernest C. Brace was a decorated Marine pilot, the first to fly one hundred missions in the Korean War. A little more than five years later, however, a fateful accident and a hastily made decision stripped him of his rank, and he was dishonorably discharged from the Marines. Vowing to regain his lost honor, he flew secret supply missions to Laos as part of a C.I.A. operation during the Vietnam War. Captured in a surprise attack by the Pathet Lao, Brace was imprisoned and brought to an isolated outpost in North Vietnam, where he was confined in a bamboo cage, his head, hands, and feet bound. Though a civilian, he made it a point to live by the Military Code of Conduct: he resisted the enemy whenever he could, and attempted escape three times. But each run for freedom only led to crueler torments upon capture. In this extraordinary memoir of courage, sacrifice, and the will to survive, Ernie Brace recounts his experiences in a way that is stirring, inspiring, and memorable. A CODE TO KEEP is destined to stand out as one of the key documents of America's involvement in Vietnam.