On January 5, 1967, Lieutenant Commander Richard A Stratton's plane crashed in North Vietnam. Captured and imprisoned, he was soon photographed at a press conference, bowing mechanically and confessing to "crimes" against the Vietnamese people. Having extracted the confession by torture, the North Vietnamese were now displaying him as the arch-criminal of the war-the symbol of genocide and terror, the "mad bomber of Hanoi." Prisoner At War is the story not only of Commander Stratton's survival under extreme mental and physical torture but also of his wife Alice's struggle to raise a young family during the six agonizing years of her husband's imprisonment. Prisoner At War is a book about a most painful separation and about the courage and stamina of a loving couple who believed in their deliverance despite almost insurmountable odds.

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