BUCHER: MY STORY by Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, USN, with Mark Rasariich

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If you've been waiting for the real story of the Pueblo, you're gettintmore than

you bargained for. Because Bucher: My Story is a superb autobiography. A fantastic sea

adventure. A triumphant account of human endurance. A tragedy of errors. As well as a controversial answer to all the questions about the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo, the crew's imprisonment, and the Navy's role in the affair.

Commander Bucher is the only man who knows what really happened to the Pueblo—and why. Now, with Mark Rascovich, author of The Bedford Incident, he has written "an engrossing book that should hit a large American reading public where it hurts. Commander Bucher's grimly honest narrative of the capture of the Pueblo in international waters off the North Korean coast is gripping reading in every detail ...from the Pueblo's outfitting ...right through her chase, bombard-ment, and capture by North Korean vessels. The visceral excitements of the capture on that January day in 1968, and the ordeal of Bucher and his men during their brutal imprisonment that ended with their release a few days before Christmas in 1968, won't be easy for any reader to forget. Bucher, right through the Court of Inquiry which struck many as a self-serving Navy whitewash of obvious failures, emerges as a movingly honest, self-lacerating figure. Among the year's powerful documents."—Publishers' Weekly

Selected by the Literary Guild • 32 pages of photographs • $7.95 at booksellers

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