Description: During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators. Determined to maintain their code of conduct, the inmates of the Hanoi Hilton and other camps developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, the North Vietnamese singled out its eleven leaders and banished them to an isolated jail. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed, one would never leave. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW/MIA movement.
Brief description:
Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.
Review Quotes:
"A gripping account of the 'Alcatraz Eleven'...Townley's telling of these important stories is fresh and vivid, thanks to his interviews with surviving prisoners and their family members. Defiant is an excellent book for younger readers with little knowledge of this searing chapter in American history, when a brash United States stumbled its way deeper and deeper into the Indochina morass. Townley also adds an important, and often overlooked, dimension to the prisoners' stories--that of their wives'campaign at home to thrust the plight of the POWs into the national spotlight."
-- "New York Times Book Review"