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Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasnt all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a school bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers werent Vietnamese . . . Replete with fascinating insights into the workings of high-level intelligence and military command, The Raid is Benjamin Schemmers unvarnished account of the courageous mission that was quickly labeled an intelligence failure by Congress and a Pentagon blunder by the world press. Determined to ferret out the truth, Schemmer uncovers one of the CIAs most carefully guarded secrets. From the planning and live-fire rehearsals to the explosive reactions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff watching the drama unfold to the aftermath as the White House and Pentagon struggled for damage control, Schemmer tackles the tough questions. What really happened during the twenty-seven minutes the ra

Who reads The raid : the Son Tay prison rescue mission?

Author

Schemmer, Benjamin F; Reynolds, Jon A., donor

Publisher

Ballantine Books/Random House, Inc.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345446961

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.92 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14