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Title: When hell was in session by Jeremiah A Denton ISBN: 0-88349-112-5 Publisher: Readers Digest Press : distributed by Crowell Pub. Date: 1976 Format: Unknown Binding List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Extraordinary Work
Comment: About five years ago, I picked up Denton's book with intentions of quickly skimming through it- I was hoping to grasp enough of it to write a report on it for my high school history class. But after reading just the first chapter of it, I knew that there was no way I could just skim through it. Denton's experience is rivoting- absolutely gripping and heartwrenching that at times I read through it with eyes blinded by tears. I could not put it down. Upon completion, I was left with a feeling of overwhelming pride and passion for my country, and with a sense of awe and admiration for our Vietnam POWs. Jeremiah Denton is a courageous man and an extraordinary role model- even in dire circumstances he stood by his country with so much love and determination that even in the face of death, he did not falter. I have read his book many times (since that first time five years ago), and every time I read it, I find something new- some glimmer of hope in the terror that held him captive for so many years. Denton's book is truly a masterpiece- a song of freedom and a narrative of patriotism so strong that it challenges the hearts and minds of it's readers to remember that we live in a such a blessed country- the land of the free.
Rating: 5
Summary: Quite a book!!!
Comment: Beautifully written, touching, disturbing, encouraging, spiritually enlightening, and tremendously upsetting, this account of a true American Hero's 7 1/2 years of imprisonment in Vietnam will exhaust every human emotion that the reader possesses. I read this book from cover to cover without stopping to breathe. I was shocked by every page. I never allowed myself to believe that human beings could treat each other the way that Admiral Denton was treated by the North Vietnamese. I have the utmost of respect for him, considering the pain that he lived with, not only during his imprisonment, but during the writing of this book as well. A lessor man would make all effort to block these years from his memory, but Jeremiah Denton relived the horror everyday that he spent writing this book. He did this for me, you, and all Americans so that we might begin to fully understand, not only how he was treated and how his faith in God, his family, and his country got him through this ordeal, but the necessity of this badly misunderstood war as well. This is a "must-read" book for any American who hasn't taken the time to stop and thank a Veteran for our freedom. Without the courage and loyalty of men like Denton, our country would not be the wonderful place that it is. I thank God everyday for these men who risked their lives for people like me, whom they don't even know. What greater hero is there?
Rating: 4
Summary: disturbing book not for the faint hearted people
Comment: Most people get carried away but their admiration for the author and forget the fact that it is the book they are reviewing and not the author. I definitely admire Jeremiah Denton for his chivalry and courage but reviewing the book is little different.
From Historical Fact Finder and documentation perspective this is a great book and the descriptions of the torture are so vivid that sometimes I could not read more than few pages at the time. You will get a first hand description of what actually happened to the prisoners and how they survived. This book should be an encouragement to every survivor of every disaster.
From a Political Commentary Perspective - this is just not that good - very childish effort I would say. You will get hundreds of books on Vietnam with better political analysis. (well I will agree to the fact that the author has devoted very little space to political commentary but the little that is there is biased and extremely childish)
From a Literary perspective - very nice composition and it is amazing to see how the author has remembered the minute incidents. Sometimes the torture descriptions are little repetitive. But the book is interesting most of the time. It even mentions John McCain.
(one thing for sure all these tortures in Vietnam was child's play compared to the humiliation that the prisoners have gone through in Abu Graib. Denton should be glad that the North Vietman guards were not female perverts with digital cameras and he was not forced to a little naked pyramid with his buddies)
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Title: The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years As a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by Robinson Risner ISBN: 0345336771 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: P.O.W: A Definitive History of the American Prisoner-Of-War Experience in Vietnam, 1964-1973 by John Hubbell ISBN: 0595138888 Publisher: Backinprint.com Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays, No. 6) by James B. Stockdale ISBN: 0817936920 Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.00 |
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Title: Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.) by Jim Stockdale ISBN: 0817993924 Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Chained Eagle by Everett Alvarez, Anthony S. Pitch ISBN: 1556111673 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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