American patriot: the life and wars of Colonel Bud Day
Robert Coram
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2007]
- Copyright:
- ©2007
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- Summary:
- During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent 67 months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, along with John McCain. Despite sustained torture, Day would not break. He became a hero to POWs everywhere--a man who fought without pause, not a prisoner of war, but a prisoner at war. Upon his return, passed over for promotion to Brigadier General, Day retired. But years later, with his children grown and a lifetime of service to his country behind him, he would engage in another battle, this one against an opponent he never had expected: his own country. On his side would be the hundreds of thousands of veterans who had fought for America only to be betrayed--and what would happen next would make Bud Day an even greater legend.--Publisher description.
- Table of Contents:
- Siouxland
- War and peace
- Preparation
- The wild blue yonder
- Sporty flying
- Building time
- Hit my smoke
- South toward freedom
- North toward hell
- The bug
- Another summer of love
- The years of the locust
- The freedom bird
- Three's in...with unfinished business
- Over the side
- Goodbye yellow dogs
- Once more unto the breach
- The fat lady never sings
- One more mission
- Epilogue.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-384) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- UG626.2.D39 C67 2007
- ISBNs:
- 0316758477
9780316758475 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2006022736
- OCLC Numbers:
- 70407766