title: Survivors: Vietnam P.o.w.s Tell Their Stories
author:  Zalin Grant 
description: <div><b>Zalin Grant</b> served as an officer in Army Intelligence in Vietnam and later returned as a correspondent for <i>Time</i> and for <i>The New Republic</i>. He is the author of <i>Facing the Phoenix: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam</i>.</div>
zlib_text: DEDICATION
  For Lila and Emmie
  
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  CONTENTS
  Dedication
  Introduction
  Two months to lockdown
  One month to lockdown
  One week to lockdown
  Lockdown. Alert Level 4: week one
  Alert Level 4: week two
  Alert Level 4: week three
  Alert Level 4: week four
  Alert Level 4: week five
  Alert Level 3: week one
  Alert Level 3: week two (and a bit)
  Alert Level 2: week one
  Alert Level 2: week two
  Alert level 2: week three
  Biographies
  About the Author
  Copyright
  
  Introduction
  This is not the story of New Zealand’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
  of 2020. It is the story of how that pandemic affected several lives, told in
  their own words. The subjects were chosen because they each had a
  connection to areas that would be directly affected: government, research,
  education, media, small business, big business, mental health, social
  services and others.
  When this book was begun, the pa