Charlie Plumb

'I'm No Hero' is the story of Charlie Plumb, but it is also the story of all POWs who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger, and pain.It is no pretty story. It tells of the torture room with walls built to muffle human screams, of the 'rope trick' and 'fanbelt' techniques designed to make a man talk, of illness, of insanity. But it also tells of the ingenuity and creativity which allowed the men to outsmart their guards and to set up communication systems, classes, escape plans, and to maintain their chain of command.It is a revealing story. It pictures men who are reduced to the basics physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It shows how these situations can be survived with individual integrity and pride intact.It tells of growing relationships with God which came as a result of desperate need. It outlines a closed society's methods of developing rules which allow members to live together in harmony.It is a story of hope, for it suggests that the techniques used by POWs to survive their conditions can be used by others to overcome similar situations faced in day-to-day living.

First Edition. Big Little Book #1106 of this standard size, 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" series bound in pictorial boards. Illustrated through-out by Bill Counselman. 432 pages. A Good copy. Rubs to the spine tips, spine edges, corners and along the edges. The upper spine tips are split and the head of the spine is creased. Creasing along the spine seams. Rubbing and soiling to the covers. The pages are tanned but supple.

softcover book

The era of "peace with honor" lasted only long enough for war-weary Americans to turn their attention to domestic problems. then, along with daily reports on steadily rising food and fuel costs, they began to hear of renewed Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. Even before the fall of Saigon to the Viet Cong, the Khmer Rouge had captured Phnom Penh, and the government in Laos was in a state of disintegration. The media, so adept at criticizing U.S. involvement in indochina, began taking a new "We didn't fight hard enough." But the damage was done, and the unfortunate chapter of history could not be rewritten. ExPOW Plumb's candid analysis of what happened and his insightful commentary on the present can be described only as disquieting. They are, however, recommended reading for all who are concerned about the future of Asia, America and the world.

Enlarged with more than 600 original clocks.

Name blacked out inside cover.Light smudging on cover and spine.. Discard stamped on top edge of paged.