By Amy Shively Hawk,John McCain
In 1967, U.S. Air strength fighter pilot James Shively was once shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief airplane, he landed in a rice paddy and used to be captured by means of the North Vietnamese military. For the subsequent six years, Shively continued brutal therapy by the hands of the enemy in Hanoi criminal camps. again domestic his female friend moved on and married one other guy. sure in iron shares on the Hanoi Hilton, not able to get domestic to his household, Shively reflected suicide. but by some means he came across wish and the need to survive--and he grew to become decided to aid his fellow POWs.
In a newspaper interview a number of years after his free up, Shively stated, "I had the chance to be captured, the chance to be interrogated, the chance to be tortured and the event of answering questions below torture. It was once a really humiliating event. I felt sorry for myself. yet I discovered the challenging method lifestyles is not reasonable. existence is barely what you are making of it."
Written by way of Shively's stepdaughter Amy Hawk--whose mom Nancy finally reunited with and married Shively in a positive love story--and in line with large audio recordings and Shively's personal journals, Six Years on the Hanoi Hilton is a haunting, riveting portrayal of lifestyles as an American prisoner of warfare trapped at the different aspect of the world.
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