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02536aam a2200301 a 4500 001 61E579A61F1911E68BFD59D9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160521010020 008 140314s2014 000 0 eng u 020 $a 1250037611 020 $a 9781250037619 (e-book)\9781250006530 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $d SILO 100 1 $a Townley, Alvin. 245 10 $a Defiant : $b the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned $c Alvin Townley. 264 1 $a New York $b Thomas Dunne Books $c 2014. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the inmates of the Hanoi Hilton and other POW camps developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, the North Vietnamese singled out its eleven leaders, Vietnam's own "dirty dozen," and banished them to an isolated jail that would become known as Alcatraz. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed; one would never return. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW/MIA movement. When the survivors finally returned, one would receive the Medal of Honor, another became a U.S. Senator, and a third still serves in Congress. A story of survival and triumph in the vein of Unbroken and Band of Brothers, Defiant by Alvin Townley will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith, and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations. "-- 650 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. 650 $a HISTORY / Military / Veterans. 650 $a HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War. 650 $a Military spouses $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a Prisoners of war $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a Prisoners of war $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese. 941 $a 1 952 $l RRPA135 $d 20160521011214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61E579A61F1911E68BFD59D9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search