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Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW Summary & Study Guide Description
Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW Plot Summary
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In 1963, Nick Rowe is with a group of Vietnamese soldiers on a routine mission when they encounter Vietcong soldiers. In the fight, Rowe and a fellow soldier are captured. Rowe realizes the seriousness of his situation but is unable to do anything about it immediately. As time passes, Rowe is often weakened and is constantly pushed to declare that the Vietcong are justified in all aspects of the war and that his own countrymen are wrong. Failure to do so continually prompts varying degrees of punishment. For five years his captors work to instill a series of propaganda statements into Rowe's mind and Rowe continues to disbelieve his captors.
Rowe is a military man, having decided to attend West Point because his older brother was killed prior to his own graduation. Rowe is deployed to Vietnam without really knowing all the politics involved. Rowe comes to like many...
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