"When Lt. Colonel Ballard, a USAF jet pilot on a military mission over North Vietnam, was shot down in September 1966, his first thought was for his wife: Ruth, I'm sorry. It's going to be a long time... Shortly afterward he was captured by North Vietnamese soldiers and interred as a prisoner of war. Thus began six and a half years of pain, hunger, thrist, fear, anxiety, humiliation, and degradation. But there was also hope. And faith. This memoir...