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Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War Paperback – March 31, 2004

by Garnett "Bill" Bell (Author), George J. Veith (Author)

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"Leave No Man Behind" is the powerful story of Garnett "Bill" Bell's quest, at great personal cost, to find and bring home the POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the Vietnamese Communists and his fluency in various regional dialects, he penetrated the system the Communists had created to exploit American POWs for diplomatic concessions, or their remains and personnal effects for financial rewards. In this book, Bell shares his perspective as a witness to history as it unfolded.

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"The most comprehensive study ... to account for our POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War I have read to date." -- Rod Utech, Producer, POW/MIA Radio

About the Author

Garnett "Bill" Bell was the first chief of the U.S. POW/MIA office in post-war Vietnam. Since his enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1960 to his retirement in 1993, Bill Bell played a vital role in the history of the American POW/MIA issue. In 1973, Bell was chosen as the American interpreter-translator for "Operation Homecoming," the release of U.S. POWs in Hanoi by the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao. During the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, Bell helped clandestinely evacuate American and South Vietnamese nationals from Saigon, and was one of the last American officials to leave by helicopter. In 1988, he became the U.S. Government's field investigator for the first POW/MIA search and recover operations undertaken in post-war Vietnam. George J. Veith has written countless pages about the Vietnam War, including "Code Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts during the Vietnam War" (Military Book Club's Book of the Month for January, 1998). He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the POW/MIA issue and has been interviewed on radio and TV on behalf of the families of POW/MIAs.

Paperback: 490 pages
Publisher: Goblin Fern Press (March 31, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0964766345
ISBN-13: 978-0964766341
Product Dimensions: 1 x 6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 14 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,223,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #793 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Military > Vietnam War
- #2120 in Books > History > Military > United States > Vietnam War
- #12359 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States

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No closer documentation will ever be written about the POW/MIA issue!

BySteve Lorentzon August 10, 2016

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Having been in combat with the Marines as a corpsman in '69-'70 and then having the distinct honor of returning on the 18th Iteration with JTF/FA in '92 just before I retired out of the Navy and working under the direction of Garnett Bell I found this book riveting and down to earth regarding the author's personal experience of dedicating his life to the cause of determining where our POWs and MIAs are located. His knowledge of the Communist way of thinking and operating brought the most interesting feature to the table of success in his findings. In order to capture the enemy you need to know everything you can about how the enemy lives, breathes and operates - and he did just that. His profound expertise in the dialects of the Vietnamese, Laotian & Cambodian languages astounded the local villagers to the point that they swarmed around him when he came to talk to the locals because they just could not believe that an American could speak their language/dialect so well. His personal tragedies, profound dedication to the families of those POW/MIAs and to our government reflect the highest level of human integrity I have witnessed. Having read his book and meeting and working with him personally have changed my life distinctly. It was somewhat a tragedy that the government didn't leave the overseeing and operation of the POW/MIA program in the hands of someone prepared to follow in his footsteps. I salute Mr Bell for his dedication and service to God and country.

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The Author Is A Hero!

ByMcgivern Owen Lon December 18, 2004

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"Leave No Man Behind" is the true guidepost to the painful saga of resolving the search for POWs and MIAs in Indochina. It should be required for anyone interested in the details and history of the quest. The author, a genuine hero, spent most of 20 years, 1973-1993, interviewing refugees, battling U.S. bureaucrats (military and civilian) and wrestling with Communist officials in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. He was also this country's senior field investigator, searching remote crash and burial sites for remains of U.S. military. Along the way he was actively involved in the final evacuation from Saigon in 1975. He learned several distinct Vietnamese dialects, the better to communicate/negotiate with the adversary. Few Americans would be that conscientious. Those of us who have followed and supported the search for POWs/MIAs all these years know how venally, dishonestly and even cruelly the Vietnamese have acted. They deny storing remains and then repatriate bodies with obvious evidence of chemical storage. They allow us to "investigate" crash sites that have been clearly sanitized in advance. Bodies are dug up, moved and reinterred. After payment of search fees, permits, excavation fees and other "costs", remains are found! And so it goes, on and on, year after frustrating year. But when Vietnamese act that way, they are being themselves! How can we explain or describe American officials, civilian and military, who descend to the same level? Mr.Bell makes it perfectly clear that a POW assignment was all too often a just soft "REMF" job. These guys did not want too many POWs being repatriated all at once. How would that look? The longer the searches went on, the longer the comfortable gigs. In the words of a previous reviewer, the whole deal was nothing more than a meal ticket. This reviewer has always suspected that we were own worst enemy and the list of "usual suspects" is long and sickening. There is no doubt in this quarter that these quislings would never want any American MIA found alive. They would be too frightened to explain the reappearance! One specific suspect on the list of lowlife Americans is President Carter, who tried very hard to underfund the original search efforts and nip them in the very bud. Another is not President Clinton but John Kerry. He was so in love with normalizing relations with North Vietnam that his so-called Senate Select Committee swept whitewashed the entire POW/MIA effort. All so his family owned company received exclusive American rights to real estate deals in North Vietnam. How Mr. Bell kept his calm and perspective dealing with so man cowardly and selfish Americans is a mystery. This review could continue at great length, but I'm sure my amazon friends have the picture clearly. In a review of Bernard Fall's "Street Without Joy", this observer closed by writing that the author would be "a great guy to have a few beers with". I feel the same about Mr. Bell except that he would not have to pay for a round. The author is a true American hero. I'll conclude this review by restating that "Leave No Man Behind" is required reading for anyone concerned with the resolution of the 1,845 men still missing in Indochina.

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He enjoyed it.

ByMary Ann Andersonon January 13, 2017

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Xmas present for my husband. He enjoyed it.

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Five Stars

ByJoey Bon January 13, 2017

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Fast delivery and a great book

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Excellent read

ByNancy Liberton April 23, 2014

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I've been to several Rolling Thunder rallies in DC. However, I wish I had read this book before hand knowing somebody had already been making the effort to bring POW's home. This is the untold story that binds our country together, that never gets reported by the main stream media. I was lucky enough to know one of the Son Tay (sp?) raiders who, until the day he died, felt the pain of not having been able to bring our POW's home in 2005 as much as the day the mission occurred during the VN war. Knowing there's men like him and Mr Bell in the world, with their dedication and vigilance to bring all our soldiers home, is comforting. No doubt, you will become one of God's legions of angels in battling evil.

I just don't see how Mr Bell was able to maintain his professionalism and composure in dealing with the communists. I think he's a genius.

For those of you who would like to help continue bringing our soldiers home please contact your congressman and ask him/her to support H. Res.231 [not H. R. 231] for a POW/MIA Select Committee. Contact RHall8715@aol.com if you need more info. He's an atty who represents the POW families to bring our soldiers home.