Tanker sez: Perhaps, but the book, according to those reviews, does not offer any new or concrete evidence to support the sensational blurb in your first post
That my review is subjective goes without saying, however, to call it sensational may be a bit of a stretch...to that end I will include a few cuts from the reviewers you cite in your link, so that our readers can decide for themselves. I chose to only include reviews wherein the reviewers identified themselves by name.
This is a book that should make ordinary American citizens exceedingly sad and angry. Although some may argue that its message is old news, and certainly very dated information, the horror and outrage it should occasion is neither old nor dated. For what the authors contend, and go on to impressively prove, is that our national government deliberately and maliciously betrayed its own soldiers trapped as Prisoners Of War (POWs) in Vietnam, abandoning them in favor of a quick and otherwise painless exit from the war in Southeast Asia.
Barron Laycock
The book is not only a "good read," it also contains a wealth of important information that no researcher of the Pow/MIA issue can do without. The author has gone to exhaustive lengths in the detailing of this American tragedy.
Michael J Woznicki
I would highly recommend this book to everyone who would like a truthful explanation on the fate of our POW's, what has been hidden from the public by our govenment, and the illegal use of power by our govenment and it's intelligence agencies.
Kyle Tolle
This tells to whole story...how could we as civilized people forget some of the bravest men Amarica has produced?? I was in the Army, 67-70 and I am totally ashamed to be an American...she tells to facts, and you can decide how it effects you.
Victor R. Mcleod
What an outstanding book, truth always is better than the lies told by our Government having retired from the Government and knowing the inside facts of the fate of our POW/MIA's I testified UNDER OATH at the Senate POW/MIA hearing's and know first hand the truth this is a book for all to read it is History of how our elected "Cowards" run in the face of the enemy. five stars +++++ Truth is better than cover up
Scott Barnes
Mr and Mrs Stevenson have been on hundreds
of radio and TV shows and this very solidly
refferenced book should be on the same shelf
in your library as Col. James Bo Gritz books,
on the same subject [Ex: 'A Nation Betrayed'].
Bravo, Mr and Mrs Stevenson!
Richard A. Salzer
Aside from its "mysterious" and "too dangerous" so-called sources, the book is full of outright lies. To cite just one example, Jensen makes a very big deal out of the "mysterious" crash of an EC-47. The book claims that the EC-47 was "an aircraft designed to be a death trap" and that the crew was "compelled to commit war crimes." She also claims that "Because of the sophisticated electronic equipment on board, arrangements existed for the immolation and destruction of the aircraft before it could fall into enemy hands. The electronic equipment was packed in so tightly that it was almost impossible for men to bail out." All of that is just plain not true. Not one word of it. Nobody was forced to do anything. I was a navigator instructor on EC-47s at the same base in Thailand. We were just doing a job, and a pretty good one, compared to some of the idiotic schemes tried in SEA. There was plenty of room: more room than flying in coach these days. And the idea of a self-destruct mechanism on an ancient Gooney Bird is just plain laughable. Conspiracy theorists will love this book, but Ms. Jensen only perpetuates the myth that there are POWs still alive, which again would be laughable if it weren't so sad that families are still being used by scam artists like Ms. Jensen.
D. Steiner
23 Reviews as compiled at the site linked to, ie; Amazon.com
5 star: (15)
4 star: (3)
3 star: (1)
2 star: (0)
1 star: (4)
as you can see, 65% of the reviews rated the book at 5 stars (highest rating).
