Everything I need to know about Vietnam I learned from reading Nick Rowe’s “Five years to freedom”. In fact I think it should be required reading before a kid is given a high school diploma.
Regardless what you think of John McCain, when I read "The Nitingale's Song", I was amazed that he, and any pow, got out alive.
the book is an interesting story (true) of Navy academy grads and the paths life took them (one of which was McCain and another, Ollie North).