The author recounts the eleven months he spent as a prisoner of Colombian guerrillas hoping to ransom him

Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas

Biographies & Memoirs

HARGROVE, THOMAS R.

True Crime

Ballantine Books

Long March/Freedom

Random House Value Publishing

Historical

AuthorHouse

The U.S. was pulling troops out of Vietnam in June 1969 when First Lieutenant Thomas Hargrove reported as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Army in Chuong Thien, one of the most backwater and dangerous provinces in the Mekong Delta. He was an Infantry officer, but also a West Texas cotton farmer with advanced degrees in agricultural science. Hargrove was soon teaching Vietnamese farmers to grow a miracle rice from the Philippines that tripled production. But as an Army lieutenant, he routinely had to call B-52 strikes on the same farmers who planted those rice seeds. War and peace. Working with both was hellish. The pacification program was meant to win hearts and minds. But blood mingled freely with those vital organs in Chuong Thien.Two decades later Hargrove returned twice to the former Chuong Thien province. His hosts were former Viet Cong who had known - but did not kill - Hargrove because he brought the new rice seeds.Hargrove writes of a different kind of war that few Americans knew-- of how it led to a career in the Green Revolution-- of being drawn back to those terrible rivers and swamps where it all began.

A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Leaders & Notable People

Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, a record of his eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, was the basis for the movie hit Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity. The listener gets a sense of the tension and intense emotions caused by bouts of monotony broken by sudden brutality, as well as the strength, wit, and personality through which Hargrove kept himself alive.

Business & Money

Blackstone Audiobooks

Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, a record of his eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, was the basis for the hit movie Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity. The listener gets a sense of the tension and intense emotions caused by bouts of monotony broken by sudden brutality, as well as the strength, wit, and personality through which Hargrove kept himself alive.

Long March to Freedom Lib/E: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas

Memoirs

Blackstone Publishing

A fascinating true Vietnam story. The Green Revolution in Asian agriculture was just the beginning when rice expert and First Lieutenant Thomas Hargrove reached the Mekong Delta in 1969. Though he came in peace to distribute a high-yielding rice, he would not be immune to the horrors of war. Original. (Military History)

A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta 1969-1991, and Beyond

History

Americas

Paperback in very good condition. Personal note written on first page.

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Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas

Long March/Freedom

Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas

A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas

Long March to Freedom Lib/E: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas

A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta 1969-1991, and Beyond

The mysteries of Taal: A Philippine volcano and lake, her sea life and lost towns