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.
Among the 20th century revolutionaries, Ho Chi Minh waged the longest — and in terms of human lives sacrificed, the costliest — battle against colonial power.
The prisoners at "Briarpatch" and the "Zoo," two prisoner of war camps west of Hanoi, were rounded up for a march. The event had been planned by the North Vietnamese to win support for their cause.Â
