A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection (Publication Series: No. 315)
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In September 1965, then navy commander James B. Stockdale was shot down while flying a mission over North Vietnam. He was to spend the next seven and a half years in a Hanoi prison, four of them in solitary confinement. As a senior officer among the prisoners, he was responsible for defining rules of conduct and maintaining morale. It was a task that, despite torture, intimidation, and isolation, he fulfilled with intelligence and courage. For a specific act of risking his life to protect his fellow prisoners, Admiral Stockdale was award the congressional Medal of Honor. Admiral Stockdale survived because of his character and his values. Both were honed and strengthened during his imprisonment, and their refinement under adversity represents a personal victory for him. His reflections on this experience and the reasons for his survival form the basis of the essays reprinted here. Ranging in subject from methods of communication in prison to military ethics to the principles of leadership, the thirty-four selections contained in this volume are a unique record of what their author calls a "melting experience," a pressure-packed existence that forces one to grow.
A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection (Publication Series: No. 315),James Stockdale,Hoover Institution Press,0817981527,Admirals,Biography,History & Theory - General,History - Military / War,Military,Military - Vietnam War,Military ethics,Naval art and science,Political,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Stockdale, James B,United States,POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,Political science & theory,Social & political philosophy
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