Watch a P.O.W. escape in the Book of the Day

Dieter Dengler was shot down over Vietnam while flying for the Navy in the 1960s. After being tortured and held captive, he would lead a group of fellow POWs on one of the most famous escapes documented. Hero found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War is one of the most recent tellings of his escape, this time through a collection of interviews with family, friends, and fellow soldiers as well as with government declassified documents.