Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.
April 21, 1989 the US Army Special Forces lost a legend in its ranks. Communist guerrillas assassinated COL. Nick Rowe while on his way to work as a military advisor to the Philippine Army. Rowe had escaped a Viet Cong prisoner of war camp on New Year’s Eve 1968 while being taken to his execution. […]
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