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Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned by Alvin Townley

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned audiobook runs 14.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Joe Barrett (about 9.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.8listening hrs
Military (History)store shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 14.8 hours, it runs longer than 81% of the 4,743 Military (History) audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned is an audiobook by Alvin Townley: a 14.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Joe Barrett, released February 4, 2014, on the Military (History) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.8 hrs
Narrated by
Joe Barrett
Released
February 4, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Military (History)
ISBN
9781482958713

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned audiobook?

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned runs 14.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.9 hours.

Is the Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned audiobook free?

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Who narrates Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned?

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned is narrated by Joe Barrett.

Is Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.9 hours, saving 4.9 hours.