(025581) McConnell, Malcolm. Into The Mouth Of The Cat: The Story of Lance Sijan, Hero of Vietnam. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. 4th Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 253 pages. Fine in Near Fine DJ. DJ inner front flap is creased. Sijan was a young Air Force pilot who was ejected from a crippled fighter-bomber in 1967 into the steep jungle mountains of Laos. Although disabled by terrible injuries, he evaded capture by enemy patrols and dragged himself through the savage terrain for an incredible six weeks, without food or adequate supplies of water, until capture on Christmas day. He escaped his captors only to be recaptured and tortured. He died two weeks later in Hanoi ISBN: 0393018997 (Sijan, Lance, Prisoners Of War, Air Force)
