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- catalog abstract ""This is the true story of Jim Stockdale, a navy fighter pilot shot down and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War; and his wife, Sybil, who, back home in California, carried on a valiant fight on behalf of her husband and all other POWs during the eight years of his imprisonment. Vice Admiral Stockdale entered the fray as a commander in 1964, when the American commitment totaled about 16,00o men, and left it in 1973, when the number was about the same. In between, however, our commitment had shot up to over thirty times that number. The truth about the Tonkin Gulf incidents--and how they precipitated our huge investment of treasure and blood--is a story Jim Stockdale has protected for twenty years, almost eight of them at great risk in a Communist prison. Sybil and Jim tell their story in alternating chapters--Jim recounting his experiences in prison during those years; Sybil telling of her struggle to get the U.S. government to acknowledge the inhumane treatment of POWs in North Vietnam and to enforce the terms of the Geneva Convention--all the while raising four sons on her own. ... It will likely contain some surprises for American readers, but nothing is revealed here that is not already known by the North Vietnamese government."--Prologue.".
- catalog contributor b321393.
- catalog contributor b321394.
- catalog created "c1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "c1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1984.".
- catalog description ""This is the true story of Jim Stockdale, a navy fighter pilot shot down and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War; and his wife, Sybil, who, back home in California, carried on a valiant fight on behalf of her husband and all other POWs during the eight years of his imprisonment. Vice Admiral Stockdale entered the fray as a commander in 1964, when the American commitment totaled about 16,00o men, and left it in 1973, when the number was about the same. In between, however, our commitment had shot up to over thirty times that number. The truth about the Tonkin Gulf incidents--and how they precipitated our huge investment of treasure and blood--is a story Jim Stockdale has protected for twenty years, almost eight of them at great risk in a Communist prison. Sybil and Jim tell their story in alternating chapters--Jim recounting his experiences in prison during those years; Sybil telling of her struggle to get the U.S. government to acknowledge the inhumane treatment of POWs in North Vietnam and to enforce the terms of the Geneva Convention--all the while raising four sons on her own. ... It will likely contain some surprises for American readers, but nothing is revealed here that is not already known by the North Vietnamese government."--Prologue.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- Three days in August -- The Navy wife -- Growing up in Illinois -- Japan reprieve -- Shootdown -- Getting the news -- Learning the ropes -- Making connections -- Strength in unity -- Going public with the truth -- Fighting hard -- Washington episode -- Alcatraz gang -- Premonitions of Jim's return -- Release -- Homecoming -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Aviators' immediate accounts of the Gulf of Tonkin Action -- Appendix 2. McNamara's use of radio intercepts -- Appendix 3. The fate of critical prisoner-gathered intelligence -- Appendix 4. International press coverage of Stockdale's appearance in downtown Hanoi -- Appendix 4. The fate of escapees -- Appendix 5. North Vietnam casualties during the B-52 raids.".
- catalog extent "viii, 472 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "In love and war.".
- catalog identifier "0060153180 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "In love and war.".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "c1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harper & Row,".
- catalog relation "In love and war.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "Vietnam".
- catalog subject "Air pilots, Military United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "DS559.4 .S75 1984".
- catalog subject "National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia.".
- catalog subject "Navy spouses Biography.".
- catalog subject "Prisoners of war United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Prisoners of war Vietnam Biography.".
- catalog subject "Stockdale, James B.".
- catalog subject "Stockdale, Sybil.".
- catalog subject "United States. Navy Aviation Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Navy Biography.".
- catalog subject "V63.S78 A35 1984".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, Vietnamese.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- Three days in August -- The Navy wife -- Growing up in Illinois -- Japan reprieve -- Shootdown -- Getting the news -- Learning the ropes -- Making connections -- Strength in unity -- Going public with the truth -- Fighting hard -- Washington episode -- Alcatraz gang -- Premonitions of Jim's return -- Release -- Homecoming -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Aviators' immediate accounts of the Gulf of Tonkin Action -- Appendix 2. McNamara's use of radio intercepts -- Appendix 3. The fate of critical prisoner-gathered intelligence -- Appendix 4. International press coverage of Stockdale's appearance in downtown Hanoi -- Appendix 4. The fate of escapees -- Appendix 5. North Vietnam casualties during the B-52 raids.".
- catalog title "In love and war : the story of a family's ordeal and sacrifice during the Vietnam years / Jim & Sybil Stockdale.".
- catalog type "text".