First Heroes The POWs Left Behind in Vietnam

The result of five years of research, First Heroes untangles an intricate web of information and ultimately concludes that the prisoners of war that were held captive in Southeast Asia were forgotten or ignored by their own country. Author Rod Colvin crisscrossed the country interviewing military and government officials, veterans, returned POWs, political figures, journalists, and members of the National League of Families and the National Forget-Me-Not Association and balances hard facts with the dramatic personal accounts of parents, wives, brothers, sisters, and children who have waged a difficult battle for the truth about their loved ones. This chronicle is as much a testament to the faith and unending hope of the family members as it is the story of the men themselves.

Rod Colvin is the publisher of Addicus Books, an independent publishing house, which he founded in 1994 in Omaha, Nebraska. He has written three previous nonfiction books, Evil Harvest: The True Story of Cult Murder in The American Heartland, Overcoming Prescription Addiction, and The Type 2 Diabetes Handbook: Six Rules for Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes with Dr. James T. Lane.