Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior

by James B. Stockdale

"On September 9, 1965, I flew at 500 knots right into a flak trap, at tree-top level, in a little A-4 airplane--the cockpit walls not even three feet apart--which I couldn't steer after it was on fire, its control system shot out. After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: 'five years down there, at least...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817936920
• ISBN13: 9780817936921
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"