Lynn Oâ??Shea should never have written this book.
Not because thereâ??s anything wrong with this exhaustively researched tome â?? indeed, itâ??s the best and most readable expose yet on American POWs held after the Vietnam War.
Yet if Americaâ??s political, journalistic and academic establishments worked as promised , Oâ??Sheaâ??s findings would have been revealed years if not decades ago, when they could still have impacted American foreign policy.
At the end of Americaâ??s Vietnam War in 1973, there should have been no surprise that Vietnam might violate the Paris Peace Accords and hold back US POWs. A then secret study for the government had predicted just that; Hanoi had done it before after its conflict with the French; and, as Oâ??Shea points out in persuasive detail, North Vietnam possessed a clear motive to retain American hostages.
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