In their book, In Love and War,Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale and his wife Sybil wrote about their lives during the eight years Jim was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Below are excerpts from ...

The first communication between isolated prisoners of war may have been a name scrawled ... of runaway woodpeckers," recalled POW Ron Bliss. Stockdale also talks of the pleasures of coming up ...

Stockdale, an aviator with the US Navy, spent seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. When asked how he survived his ordeal, Stockdale offered this bit of hard-won wisdom: Never doubt that ...