Pre-Owned No Time for Tombstones: Life and Death in the Vietnamese Jungle (Paperback) 0842347208 9780842347204

During the Vietnamese New Year celebration of 1968, citizens of the free world were indignant to learn of an attack made by North Viet­namese and the Viet Cong upon South Vietnamese cities and towns -an attack in which several Protes­tant missionaries were murdered and others kidnapped. In this book James and Marti Hefley tell the story of the assault on Banmethuot in the Central High­lands. They focus their report upon the capture of Hank Blood and Betty Olsen, two American mis­sionaries, and Mike Benge, a USAID agricultural advisor. Falsely identified as U.S. military collaborators, the three were chained together and force-marched through the jungle for many months. The most relentless enemy proved to be malnutrition, as the captives were denied basic food necessities and medical care. Debili­tation took its toll as first Hank, then Betty, died an agonizing death on the trail-but not before their unwavering courage and forgiving love for their persecutors touched Mike Benge's heart, and he found new faith in God. Eventually released from a Hanoi prison camp, Benge has told his story to the authors of No Time for Tombstones. A fact-finding trip to Viet Nam provided the Hefleys with further details of this heartrending, triumphant story of life and death in the Vietnamese jungle. About James & Marti Hefley: This husband-and-wife team has been in free-lance evangelical writ­ing for the past eleven years. During this time they have authored - singly or jointly - more than twenty hardback books and another twenty paperbacks. Both are graduates of New Orleans Baptist Theological Semi­nary. and James was pastor of a New Orleans Baptist church for eight years before entering full-time re­ligious journalism. They live in al Mountain. Tennessee, with their three daughters.