The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
Combines rigorous scholarly analysis with a moving narrative to record in detail the triumphs and tragedies of the several hundred servicemen and civilians who fought their own special war in prison camps in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1961 and 1973.