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The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese

The real story of what went on in the prison camps in North Vietnam, it was a nightmare that required incredible endurance to survive. He describes the days of screaming or in tears, of the monotony and despair and six weeks when he was confrontedby a torture he could not deal with.

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