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    Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam

    By William Stevenson and Monika Jensen-Stevenson

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    A damning account of how the United States government abandoned American prisoners of war in Vietnam—and the cover-up that continues to this day.
     
    It is a story often seen in movies and tv shows—POWs from the Vietnam war left behind to suffer in enemy hands, only to be later rescued through courage, loyalty and all-American military might. But that is pure fiction—and far from the brutal, rarely-told true story.
     
    In this groundbreaking expose, the authors provide startling evidence that American troops were left in captivity in Indochina, victims of their government’s abuse of secrecy and power. The authos not only delve into the world of official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony, and the pressures brought to bear on witnesses ready to tell the truth—but also reveal the trauma on patriotic families torn apart by a policy that, at first, seemed unbelievable to them.
     
    First published in 1990, Kiss the Boys Goodbye has become a classic text on the subject. This new edition features an afterword, which fills in the news on the latest verifiable scandal produced by the Senate Select Committee on POWs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9781632200150
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    William Stevenson

    William Stevenson was a journalist and author of the bestselling books A Man Called Intrepid and 90 Minutes at Entebbe, He also worked as a movie scriptwriter, a television news commentator, and producer of award-winning documentaries. He died in 2013.

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      Read this book many years ago, and its story stays with you forever. This was one of the few books that made me cry. It gives evidence on soldiers/sailors being left behind in Vietnam for years. The stories are heart breaking.