Author, historian and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson's new book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage ...

American POWs gave Hoa Lo, perhaps the best known of all the North's prison camps, the ironic tag of "Hanoi Hilton." The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it at the turn of the century.

One of the ironies in the history of the American POWs in Vietnam is that their ... and concentrated them in Hanoi. Prisoners were rounded up in the "Hanoi Hilton," the facility in which American ...

To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of war who ... sarcastically called the «Hanoi Hilton.» McCain was regularly brutally ...

A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, is out this month. “He somehow figured out the way to survive and did it against all odds and succeeded against anybody ...

Air Force Lt. Col. Tony Marshall was once one of only seven African Americans in the Air Force Academy program.

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton,” engaged in quieter, more cerebral acts ...

But the POW refused ... of war during the Vietnam War. And McCain's survival through years of near-fatal torture and hardship in a Hanoi prison, better known as the "Hanoi Hilton," was made ...

As one of the largest prisons in French Indochina, it detained thousands of political prisoners, including prominent ... captured American pilots during the Vietnam War, earning its infamous nickname ...

Hanoi is a captivating introduction to Vietnam, offering first-time visitors ... of the former prison once dubbed the "Hanoi ...