Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce HendersonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I have been wanting to read this movie since seeing the Herzog films Rescue Dawn and Little Dieter Needs to Fly . The comparison to the films, which seems to always bring up differences with the real story, prompts me to defend Herzog; he had the dramatist's inclination to entertain a movie theater audience. for the interested who have more than a couple of hours to spent, here is the researched and detailed tale of Dieter Dengler superhuman and serendipitous escaped from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos. He was rescued after 23 days on the run following six months of torture and imprisonment and was the first captured U.S. airman to escape enemy captivity during the Vietnam war. This book covers from his WW II inspiration in espying a fighter pilot to fly to move to American from Germany to the entire ordeal to his later life as a food-hording restaurateur.
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