Richard Dudman

40 Days with the Enemy

The story of a journalist held captive by guerrillas in Cambodia.

"This book is basically about human beings and the horrors of war. . . . At times it becomes something of an adventure thriller. . . . At other times the human side of the Vietnamese enemy emerges with startling clarity . . . an almost romantic saga of flahs-and-blood enemy on the battlefront in Indochina." —Washington Evening Star

Richard Dudman's book just may be the best yet written about the Indochina war . . . [he] got a view of the Indochina war that few Americans have had . . . memorable reading." —Army Times

"Adds a new dimension to the understanding of the war in Vietnam . . . Dick Dudman is a good reporter, and . . . if one is to be captured, a good man with whom to be captured." —Eugene J. McCarthy, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"One of the best books to come out of the Vietnam war, this is the stirring first-hand narrative of three American journalists held captive by guerrilas in Cambodia . . . perhaps our closest view of the Indochinese—how they live, how they think, how they act, under the strain of a neverending war. The book's underlying message throughout is man's humanity to man." —The Quill