Book
When Hell Was In Session
- Published
- 1976
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 248
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497472.When_Hell_Was_in_Session?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_24
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
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On July 18, 1965, Admiral Jeremiah Denton of the U.S. Navy was shot down during a combat mission over North Vietnam. A prisoner of war for seven and a half years, Denton provided the first direct evidence of torture by the North Vietnamese, blinking in Morse code the word torture during a televised interview before and after which he was tortured. Denton's unshakable faith in God and country sustained him through year of solitary confinement, beatings, starvation and terror. The first edition of When Hell Was In Session sold over 100,000 copies; this special 25th anniversary edition will inspire a whole new generation of readers.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780883491126
- ISBN-10
- 0883491125
Tags
DentonFaithHistoryNonfictionPOWVietnam