{"product_id":"five-years-a-pow-william-jr-ferrier-9798257974335","title":"Five Years A POW: A Novel of Vietnam and Coming Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eFebruary 1968. A helicopter goes down over the Vietnamese jungle.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSergeant Marcus Coleman survives the crash, the fire, and the capture. He does not survive it unchanged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey take his weapon. They take his dog tags. They take the photograph of his three-year-old daughter from his wallet and put it in a stranger's pocket. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor five years, Marcus endures bamboo cages, concrete cells, and the ropes of the Hanoi Hilton. He is starved, beaten, and ordered to read propaganda into a microphone. He refuses. They break him. He refuses again. The only thing that keeps him alive is a decision he makes on his knees in a rice paddy: \u003cb\u003ehe is going to see his daughter again.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo he builds her a room in his mind. An apartment on Livernois Avenue in Detroit. A kitchen. A high chair. A girl with brown eyes holding a spoon. Every night for five years, he walks through that apartment and holds onto the daughter he is missing - the one who is growing up without him, learning to walk and talk and read while her father counts days on bamboo and taps messages through prison walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThen the war ends. Marcus comes home.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd home is harder than the cage.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis daughter is eight and doesn't know him. His wife waited three years, then did what she had to do to survive. The bed feels like a trap. The fireworks sound like Hanoi. The man who comes home is not the man who left, and the family he comes home to is not the family he remembers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFive Years A POW\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about what captivity takes and what coming home demands.\u003c\/b\u003e It is about the men who endured - and the families who waited. It is about a father, a daughter, a photograph, and the decision that kept one man alive when everything was designed to break him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMatterhorn\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Jr. Ferrier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257974335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"William Jr. Ferrier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172897792255,"sku":"9798257974335","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/five-years-a-pow-william-jr-ferrier-9798257974335","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}