Author and Historian Marc Leepson, Author of The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton

The Unlikely War Hero tells the story of twenty-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Apprentice, Doug Hegdahl, who in 1967 fell off his ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and soon found himself a prisoner in Hỏa Lò Prison, the notorious North Vietnamese POW camp that prisoners called the “Hanoi Hilton.” Publishers Weekly applauds Leepson’s chronicling of this incredibly journey stating, “Leepson paints a striking picture of a canny survivor nonetheless committed to his compatriots.”