An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart this book brilliantly reveals the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973 what these brave men have endured and how administration after administration of their own government has turned its back on them.. This authoritative exposé is based on open-source documents and reports and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery as well as author interviews and personal experience. An Enormous Crime is a singular work telling a story unlike any other in our history: ugly harrowing and true.