No One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story
Written by Amy Waters Yarsinske
Narrated by Gary Telles
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Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead.
On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in the initial air strike of the Persian Gulf War. Moments after an attack by an Iraqi MIG-25, Speicher's plane vanished over the Baghdad desert.
The next day, Secretary of State Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told the American public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War. He was listed as KIA/BNR.
Tracking this explosive story for the past eight years, Yarsinske interviewed top government and military officials, diplomats, pilots, informers, and Iraqi defectors to write a stunning true account of the denials and cover-ups that obscured an essential fact: Speicher actually survived.
This abridged version of No One Left Behind takes us beyond the lies to unearth the truth of the pilot that was left behind.
Amy Waters Yarsinske
A nationally known, award-winning author of narrative nonfiction, Amy Waters Yarsinske received her master of planning degree from the University Of Virginia School Of Architecture and her bachelor of arts degrees in English and economics from Randolph-Macon Woman's College. She is a former president of the Norfolk Historical Society, cofounder of the Norfolk Historical Foundation and a graduate of CIVIC Leadership Institute. Yarsinske has over two decades of experience in the publishing industry as an author and editor and has made repeated appearances as a guest and commentator for major media, including American and foreign networks and international, national and regional radio markets. She is the author of fifty-five books of nonfiction, including the widely read, award-winning No One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story (Dutton/NAL, 2002 and 2003; Listen and Live Audio, 2002, 2004 and 2006; Topics Entertainment, 2004; Listen and Live MP3, 2007; and Playaway Digital Audio Player, 2009). Yarsinske is a Hampton Roads native whose maternal grandfather's family history can be traced to the very beginning of what is today the city of Virginia Beach, to the first men and women of the Lynnhaven Parish, Lower Norfolk County, and to the later establishment of Princess Anne County and the first resort that sprang up on Virginia's golden shore.
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