Top U.S. officials, from Roosevelt to Bush, made the determination to write off America's missing sons, secretly held hostage in the Soviet Union...

After the war, American and British authorities breached that agreement by secretly permitting Soviets to remain in the West. Stalin learned about the deception and retaliated by holding 23,500 American and 30,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers captive in the vast Soviet gulag system.

About the Authors

James Sanders, an investigative journalist (and former police division commander) lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. Emmy Award-winning journalist Mark Sauter, military reporter for Tacoma's Morning News Tribune and a former Army officer, has won national awards for his stories on U.S. POWs in the USSR while at KIRO-TV, the CBS-affiliate in Seattle, Washington. R. Cort Kirkwood is a Washington, D.C. based journalist whose editorials on the POW/MIA issue for the Washington Times were nominated for a 1991 Pulitzer Prize.

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