Beyond Survival
Book description
After spending seven years as a POW in the communist prisons of North Vietnam, the only hope was to think Beyond Survival.
When life loses its meaning, when suddenly the world is turned upside down, when there's nothing left that resembles life as we've known it, where do we find…
Why read it?
1 author picked Beyond Survival as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Shot down over North Vietnam in February 1966, U.S. Navy Captain Gerald Coffee endured seven years as a POW. His memoir put me inside his head. I felt his curiosity when the first few North Vietnamese stared at him in his cage. I felt his pain when the Viet Cong extracted details of his mission by stretching his broken right arm in an unnatural direction. I felt his anguish as months turned into years, and he learned how to survive in that hellish prison.
I hope I never feel Coffee’s pain for real because I am no John Wayne hero.…
From D.'s list on people like me who became heroes under pressure.
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