Encounter Books, Date: 2009. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2009. Encounter Books ISBN 159403236X 9781594032363 [US]

Encounter Books, Date: 2008. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2008. Encounter Books ISBN 159403236X 9781594032363 [US]

Encounter Books, Date: 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2008. Encounter Books ISBN 159403236X 9781594032363 [US]

New York, NY: Encounter Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Date: 2008. First Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 132 pages; Stated First Edition. Mylar Cover on dust jacket. Dust Jacket shows wear of usage. Book Tight. Text is clean no markings. Black & White Photographs. . 2008. Encounter Books ISBN 159403236X 9781594032363 [US]

ISBN10: 159403236X, ISBN13: 9781594032363, [publisher: Encounter Books, New York New York] Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR: 4-10-09 Thanks for Your Service - Leo Thorsness. As new Stated First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8-page photo section. Commendation by John McCain: "This book is both an authentic look at the POW experience and also an often amusing account of one man's way of coping with a brutal captivity." Six year captivity in Vietnam prison camp.
[Decatur, AL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 159403236X 9781594032363 [US]

New York: Encounter Books, Date: 2008. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. illustrations (some in color). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Leo Keith Thorsness (February 14, 1932 - May 2, 2017) was a Colonel in the United States Air Force who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War. He was awarded the medal for an air engagement on April 19, 1967. He was shot down two weeks later and spent six years in captivity in North Vietnam as a prisoner of war. The Medal of Honor action included: "As their F-105 circled the parachutes of Kingfish 02-Alpha and 02-Bravo, relaying the position to Crown, the airborne search and rescue HC-130 command aircraft, Johnson spotted a MiG-17 off their right wing. Though not designed for air-to-air combat, their aircraft responded well as Thorsness attacked the MiG and destroyed it with 20-mm cannon fire, just as a second MiG closed on his tail. Low on fuel, Thorsness outran his pursuers and left the battle area to rendezvous with a KC-135 tanker over Laos." He returned to the battle with good effect. Surviving Hell recounts a six-year captivity marked by hours of brutal torture and days of agonizing boredom. Thorsness describes how he and other American POWs strove to keep their humanity. Thrown into solitary confinement for refusing to bow down to his captors, for instance, he disciplined his mind by memorizing long passages of poetry that other prisoners sent him by tap ...