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Title details for No One Left Behind by Amy Waters Yarsinske - Available

No One Left Behind

The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story

by Amy Waters Yarsinske
Amy Waters Yarsinske
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Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead. On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in the initial air strike of the Persian Gulf War. Moments after an attack by an Iraqi MIG-25, Speicher's plane vanished over the Baghdad desert. The next day, Secretary of State Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told the American public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War. He was listed as KIA/BNR. Tracking this explosive story for the past eight years, Yarsinske interviewed top government and military officials, diplomats, pilots, informers, and Iraqi defectors to write a stunning true account of the denials and cover-ups that obscured an essential fact: Speicher actually survived.

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    September 3, 2004

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781593162771
      • File size: 140912 KB
      • Duration: 04:53:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Michael Scott Speicher's plane went down on January 16, 1991, at the beginning of the war with Iraq. He was presumed dead and declared so by the Navy. Later, doubts emerged, and since then his status has been in question. Terence Aselford sounds like he could be one of Speicher's military colleagues. With an even pace, he communicates the author's conviction that Speicher may still be alive and that the military should have a thorough and transparent investigation in order to live up to the military dictum that no one will be left behind. M.L.C. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 4, 2002
      It was a wise editorial decision to have the author read the preface—in her pleasant, no-nonsense country voice—to this amazingly timely audio version of her new book about a U.S. Navy fighter pilot who's likely being held prisoner in Iraq 11 years after Desert Storm. Along with Aselford's competent but definitely low-key reading of the rest of the book, it gives the entire production a feeling of an overheard conversation between knowledgeable friends, adding a depth of believability and confidence that fancier, more melodramatic treatment might have weakened. If Lt. Commander Speicher, shot down during the Gulf War and first listed as killed in action, is indeed alive—as Yarsinske's painstaking, Pulitzer Prize-nominated research seems to indicate—it could cause many Americans to look at President Bush's plans for Iraq with new eyes. Her presentation of material from top government and military officials, diplomats, pilots, informers and Iraqi defectors make the book even more authentic. Simultaneous release with the Dutton hardcover.

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