Volume 21, Number 3 · March 7, 1974
Torture in Hanoi
By Anthony Lewis
They Wouldn't Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their Story
by Stephen A. Rowan
Jonathan David, 252 pp., $8.95
The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese
by Colonel Robinson Risner
Random House, 264 pp., $6.95
These books have one central purpose: to present the case that American prisoners in North Vietnam were subjected to physical torture, humiliation, and psychological torment. They inevitably raise large questions about motive and guilt, ends and means. But first one has to answer a factual question: Is the case made out? Were the prisoners really tortured? My answer is Yes.
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