Prisoner Of War (NAPSA)—The New York Times called it “a major contribution to the Vietnam Warliterature.” They may have been right on target. Glory Denied (Plume, $15) by Tom Philpott is the moving saga of Vietnam veteran Jim Thompson, America’s longest-held prisoner of war. FOREWORD BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN k = = \, . _ THE SAGA OF VIETNAM VETERAN JIM THOMPSON Paw a Te syeR et) sat vay The gripping story of a Vietnam veteran held prisoner for nine years who came home to an America he didn’t recognize and a family torn apart. In late December 1963, Captain Floyd James (“Jim”) Thompsonleft behind three young daughters and a pregnant wife to go to Vietnam. Three monthslater, the Vietcong captured Thompson not far from the Laotian border. For the next nine years—five in solitary confinement—he endured starvation, loneliness, and unspeak- able cruelties. In 1973 he returned to an America that wasradically different from the one he hadleft ten years before and a son whodidn’t recognize his father. A masterful work of oral history, the moving booktells the story of a hero who endured more than most could bear and who continued to suffer after his release with a family torn apart and a fall into alcoholism. Powerfully told in Thompson’s voice and the voices of those who shared his life and trials, Glory Denied is a gripping account that will stand forever as one of the most truthful and important documents to emerge from the Vietnam era.
