**From the author of A Captain's Duty, the New York Times
best-selling account of Captain Phillips, comes the untold story of the
most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the
entire Cold War.
**One American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed
behind enemy lines and risked capture by both the North Vietnamese and
the Soviets. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past
them all to save him.
At the height of the Vietnam War, few American airmen are more valuable
than Lieutenant Colonel Gene Hambleton. His memory is filled with highly
classified information that the Soviets and North Vietnamese badly want.
When Hambleton is shot down in the midst of North Vietnam's Easter
Offensive, US forces place the entire war on hold to save a single man
hiding among 30,000 enemy troops and tanks. Airborne rescue missions
fail, killing eleven Americans. Finally, Navy SEAL Thomas Norris and his
Vietnamese guide, Nguyen Van Kiet, volunteer to go after him on foot.
Gliding past hundreds of enemy soldiers, it takes them days to reach
Hambleton, who, guided toward his rescuers via improvised radio code, is
barely alive, deeply malnourished, and hallucinating after eleven days
on the run.
In this deeply researched, untold story, award-winning author Stephan
Talty describes the extraordinary mission that led Hambleton to safety.
Drawing from dozens of interviews and access to unpublished papers,
Saving Bravo is the riveting story of one of the greatest rescue
missions in the history of the Special Forces.
