The Heroes' Wife

by Dora Griffin Bell

Overview

The Heroes' Wife is the story of Dora Smith Griffin Bell, who has been married to two heroes of the Vietnam War.  Her first husband, a navy pilot, was shot down over Hanoi on Ho Chi Minh's birthday, 1967 and captured. In this book Dora shares letters Jim Griffin wrote home from the war and her own experiences during years of  hopeful waiting, only to learn at the end of the conflict that her husband  had died just days after capture. After the war Dora married Jim Bell, another POW who had survived seven an a half years in Hanoi, and  she tells about his experiences and his nightmares.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781425926052
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	05/10/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

            Dora studied journalism at the University of Tennessee and worked for several newspapers in Arkansas and Tennessee before settling down to life as a Navy wife. She also wrote a column for The Albany Herald  in Georgia, and while waiting for her husband’s expected return from Hanoi she hosted a television talk show and was a “weather girl” at WALB--TV. Today Dora lives with her husband, retired Navy Captain Jim Bell in Alexandria, Virginia and most of her writing is limited to accounts of their travels to countries around the world