Captured by Love: Inspiring True Romance Stories from Vietnam POWs

Experience 20 Romance Stories of Top Gun POWs

​Captured by Love shares the real love stories of 20 Vietnam War POWs. Some had wives who started a movement that changed American foreign policy. Others came home and had to start over, while five single men met the loves of their lives. Despite their unique differences, all these couples have been happily married 40 to 65 years.

You'll be swept up into some extraordinary tales such as:

- Carole boldly gave her husband's POW-MIA bracelet to John Wayne--he wore it for years!
- Pan Am stewardess Suzy wore a bracelet for POW Bill Bailey, whom she did not know. But she prayed for him daily, and miraculously met and married him when he came home.
- After eight years in prison, one POW said to his wife in his first phone call upon his release, "Hi Jane. It's Tarzan." You will laugh and cry when you learn why.

Former POW Lee Ellis and love expert Greg Godek take you on a dramatic journey of faithfulness, passion, excitement, resilience, and practical love lessons from these couples.

Author: Lee Ellis, Greg Godek
Publisher: Freedomstar Media
Published: 05/30/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781733632232

About the Author

Lee Ellis is Founder and President of Leadership Freedom(R) LLC and FreedomStar Media(R). He is an award-winning author, leadership coach, and expert presenter in the areas of leadership, teambuilding, and human performance. His past clients include Fortune 500 senior executives and C-Level leaders in telecommunications, healthcare, military, and other business sectors. Some of his media appearances include interviews on networks such as CNN, CBS This Morning, C-SPAN, ABC World News, Fox News Channel, plus hundreds of engagements in various industry sectors throughout the world.

Early in his career, Lee served as an Air Force fighter pilot flying fifty-three combat missions over North Vietnam. In 1967, he was shot down and held as a POW for more than five years in Hanoi and surrounding camps. For his wartime service, he was awarded two Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Valor device, the Purple Heart, and POW Medal. Lee resumed his Air Force career, serving in leadership roles of increasing responsibility including command of a flying squadron and leadership development organizations before retiring as a colonel.

Lee has a BA in History and a MS in Counseling and Human Development. He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and the Air War College. He has authored or co-authored five books on leadership and career development. Lee's last book entitled Leading with Honor(R) Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton has received multiple awards since its release including Winner in the 2012 International Book Awards in the Business and Management Category, and selection on the 2013 U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Reading List. His last book is entitled "Engage with Honor: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability", and his latest book is entitled "Leadership Behavior DNA: Discovering Natural Talents and Managing Differences."

Lee and his wife Mary reside in the Atlanta GA area and have four grown children and six grandchildren.

Greg Godek. Author. #1 bestseller "1001 Ways to be Romantic." (Yes, they're numbered.) Appearances on Oprah and Today Show (and Jay Leno once joked about it during his monologue); Sunday New York Times (feature); Playboy (not naked); The National Enquirer (yes, really). 3 million copies sold. 16 sequels. Romance MasterClass. Creativity maven. Marketing maverick. Underground bestseller "How to be Mildly Brilliant." Father. Husband. Doctor Who fan. Pinball wizard. Guilty pleasure: Reading romance novels.