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By MIKE BILLINGTON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The Pentagon has published the first
comprehensive and documented history of American prisoners of war during
the Vietnam War, a 700-page work entitled "Honor Bound."
Authored by Air Force Academy professor Frederick Kiley and Deputy
Defense Department Historian Stuart Rochester, the book discusses the
movement of American prisoners of war to China, Laos and Cambodia.
It also addresses issues such as torture, the psychological aspects of
indoctrination, the exploitation of prisoners for propaganda purposes,
the effects of deprivation on captured service members and the manner in
which POWs passed the time of day.
Kiley and Rochester trace the capture of U.S. service members and
civilians from the Mekong Delta to Hanoi and detail the movement of
these prisoners through jungles and jails.
The Pentagon said today this book is the first to examine in depth the
differences between confinement in North and South Vietnam, successes
and failures within prisoner camp organizations and the relationship
between the treatment of prisoners during the war and
current military, political and diplomatic events.
