Chapter 1 POW Hostage Plan and Its Implementation 11 --
Chapter 2 Hanoi Bound 19 --
Chapter 3 American POWs Captured by the Pathet Lao 26 --
Chapter 4 American POWs in North Vietnam 28 --
Chapter 5 1972: The War Draws to a Close 46 --
Chapter 6 January 1973: Peace at a Very High Price 63 --
Chapter 7 February 1973: A Historic Journey to Hanoi 76 --
Chapter 8 February-March 1973: The "Most Tortured" Issue, "The Toughest Sale" 82 --
Chapter 9 Mid- to Late March 1973: The Returnee Debriefs Tell of Hundreds of American POWs Held Back 92 --
Chapter 10 Spring 1973: "A 'Cancer' on the Presidency" 98 --
Chapter 11 Spring, Summer, and Fall 1973: The Collapse of the JEC Talks - The Collapse of the Paris Peace Accords 108 --
Chapter 12 1974: The End of the LIne for Richard Nixon 117 --
Chapter 13 January-April 1975: The End of the Line for South Vietnam 120 --
Chapter 14 May-December 1975: "Cuba Suggested to Us to Keep Them Back" - Congress Investigates the Fate of the POWs and MIAs 127 --
Chapter 15 1976: Montgomery Continues His Investigation - American POWs Seen in Captivity in Both North and South Vietnam 140 --
Chapter 16 1977: A New President Addresses the Matter of the Unlisted, Unreturned POWs 156 --
Chapter 17 1978: The Sightings of the Unlisted, Unreturned POWs Continue - The Refugee Exodus Begins 175 --
Chapter 18 1979: A Prison System in Chaos - Convincing Evidence Finally Reaches Washington 188 --
Chapter 19 1980: Rescue Plans 206 --
Chapter 20 1981: "Gasoline" 215 --
Chapter 21 1982: "The Principle of Reciprocity" 224 --
Chapter 22 1983: A Dramatic Change of Course 232 --
Chapter 23 1984: Tragedy at Arlington - A Missed Opportunity in the Oval Office 248 --
Chapter 24 1985: "Progress" in the Search for Remains - Freshmen, Stonewalled on POWs, Turn to Perot - McFarlane Drops His Guard 266 --
Chapter 25 1986: Trench Warfare 287 --
Chapter 26 1987: Perot to Hanoi - A Bombshell from General Vessey - No Evidence? 323 --
Chapter 27 1988: "Just Two Bar of Silvers for Each Man" 347 --
Chapter 28 1989: "...The Statute of Limitations Has Been Reached" 367 --
Chapter 29 1990: Sabotaging the Helms/Grassley Investigations - The Bush Final Report on POWs - Thach's Historic Visit to Washington 378 --
Chapter 30 1991: One Last Chance to Save the Unlisted, Unreturned POWs 399 --
Chapter 31 1992: The Fragging 408 --
Chapter 32 1993-1995: "The Vietnamese Know How to Count" 465 --
Chapter 33 1995-2005: "War Legacies" 480 --
Epilogue: A Proposal for President Bush 483 --
A Message from the Authors 487.