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The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton by Marc Leepson
《离奇的战争英雄：一个越战战俘在“河内希尔顿”勇气和坚韧故事》》
作者：马克·利普森
1967年4月6日，20岁的美国海军二等水兵道格·赫格达（Doug Hegdahl）在北部湾的一艘导弹巡洋舰上不慎落水。在水中浸泡了近四个小时后，他几近精疲力竭，被一艘小渔船救起，并很快发现自己被关押在和洛监狱，这是臭名昭著的越南战俘营，战俘们称之为河内希尔顿。
在紧张的审讯中，赫格达假装自己是一个几乎不会读写的乡巴佬。俘虏们识破了他的诡计，称他为“蠢得不可思议的人”。事实上，赫格达聪明绝顶，记忆力惊人，在接下来的两年里，记住了254名战友的名字。
随着高级军官将他提前释放，1969年8月回家后，赫格达滔滔不绝地说出了这些人的名字，令他的汇报人大吃一惊。
此前，尽管美军掌握了关于其他几十人的可靠情报，河内也只承认关押了几十人。由于有了赫格达的名单，63名失踪军人被重新归类为战俘。
除了透露姓名，赫格达还告诉五角大楼有关河内美军战俘遭受系统折磨的情况，并报告了有关河内战俘营内生活的许多其他迄今不为人知的细节。
马克·利普森（Marc Leepson）根据档案研究、个人访谈和他在越南战争中的经历撰写了这本生动的书，首次讲述了在越南被俘的最年轻、级别最低的美国战俘的不可思议的故事。尽管道格·赫格达的非凡努力从未得到应有的认可，他的故事也从未被完整地讲述过，但正如一位美国海军历史学家所说，越南人“在释放海兵赫格达时犯了一个严重的错误”。
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On April 6, 1967, twenty-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell off his ship, a guided-missile cruiser, in the Gulf of Tonkin. Close to exhaustion after nearly four hours in the water, he was picked up by a small fishing boat and soon found himself in Hoa Lo Prison, the notorious North Vietnamese POW camp the prisoners called the Hanoi Hilton. Under intense interrogation, Hegdahl pretended to be a country bumpkin who could barely read or write. His captors fell for the ruse, calling him “The Incredibly Stupid One.”But Doug Hegdahl was far from stupid. Possessing a razor-sharp memory, during the next two years he memorized the names of 254 fellow prisoners and senior officers ordered him to accept an early release. After coming home in August 1969, Hegdahl shocked his debriefers by rattling off the names of the men. Hanoi had admitted holding only a few dozen, although the U.S. military had reliable intel on scores of others. With Hegdahl’s names, 63 missing servicemen were reclassified to Prisoners of War.But that’s not all. In addition to divulging the names, Doug Hegdahl told the Pentagon about the systematic torturing of the American POWs in Hanoi and reported many other hitherto unknown details about life inside the Hanoi POW camps. The new information became an important factor in North Vietnam’s fall 1969 decision to make life immeasurably easier for the 500-plus POWs held in Hanoi and assuaged the doubts and fears of dozens of POW families.In a vividly written book based on archival research, personal interviews, and his experiences in the Vietnam War, Marc Leepson, for the first time, tells the incredible tale of the youngest and lowest-ranking American POW captured in North Vietnam. Doug Hegdahl has never been properly recognized for his extraordinary efforts, and his story has never been fully told. It’s a story of survival–has own and scores of POWs.As a U.S. Navy historian put the North Vietnamese “made a bad mistake when they released Seaman Doug Hegdahl.”
