An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia

Hendon, Bill; Stewart, Elizabeth A.

ISBN 10: 0312371268 / ISBN 13: 9780312371265

Published by Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Seller Inventory # 0312371268-3-34936385

Synopsis:

"An Enormous Crime" is the authoritative account of a seminal twentieth-century drama: Vietnam, the American war prisoners left there after the war, and the ultimate debasing of American government. The product of twenty-five years of research, "An Enormous Crime" tells the story of living American POWs held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973. Some 700 POWs were unaccounted for, ultimately detained after the U.S. government reneged on a handwritten wartime promise. Based on open-source documents and reports, thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, and author interviews and personal experience, this is a story unlike any other: ugly, harrowing, and true. From the Bay of Pigs, in which the Kennedy's did what it took to rescue captured American fighters, to the Paris Peace Accords, in which Kissinger and Nixon sold American soldiers down the river for short-term political gain, we see for the first time a history of America's leaders, of lost men, and of life-and-death decision-making based on politics, not intelligence.

About the Authors: Bill Hendon (R-NC) is a two-term Congressman from North Carolina (1981-1982: 1985-1986). He served on the U.S. House POW/MIA Task Force during both terms. In 1991 and 1992, he served as a full-time intelligence investigator assigned to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. He lives in Virginia. Elizabeth Stewart is an attorney and lives in Florida.

Former U.S. Rep. BILL HENDON (R-NC) served two terms on the U.S. House POW/MIA Task Force (1981-1982 and 1985-1986); as consultant on POW/MIA Affairs with an office in the Pentagon (1983); and as a full-time intelligence investigator assigned to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (1991-1992). He has traveled to South and Southeast Asia thirty-three times on behalf of America's POWs and MIAs. Hendon is considered the nation's foremost authority on intelligence relating to American POWs held after Operation Homecoming and an expert on the Vietnamese and Laotian prison systems. He lives in Washington, D.C.

ELIZABETH STEWART's father, Col. Peter J. Stewart (USAF), is missing in action in North Vietnam. His name appears on Panel 6E, Line 12, of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Stewart has spent more than two decades researching intelligence relating to American POWs and MIAs. Her efforts have taken her from Capitol Hill to Cambodia, from the South China Sea to the presidential palace in Hanoi, and to the most remote regions of northern Vietnam. An attorney, she lives in central Florida.

Bibliographic Details

Title: An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of...
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good