Bruce Henderson (author)

Bruce Henderson
Bruce Henderson speaking at Kepler's Books (2015)
Occupation	Journalist, author, investigative reporter
Website
http://brucehendersonbooks.com/

Bruce Henderson is an American journalist and author of more than 20 nonfiction books, including a #1 New York Times bestseller. His most recent book is Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II. A member of the Authors Guild and American Society of Journalists and Authors, Henderson has taught writing courses at USC School of Journalism and Stanford University.

After service in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and following college on the G.I. Bill, he worked as an investigative reporter for several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and as an associate editor at New West and California Magazine. His writing has appeared in many other periodicals, such as Smithsonian Magazine ("Cook vs. Peary", April 2009), Esquire, Playboy and Reader's Digest.

Henderson's most recent book, Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II, is a nonfiction account of the February 23, 1945 Raid at Los Baños that freed more than 2,000 civilian prisoners of war -- most of them American men, women and children, as well as other Allied nationalities -- from an Imperial Japanese Army internment camp located 40 miles south of Manila. Rescue at Los Baños has received positive reviews from the trade and the media. Kirkus Reviews called it "riveting" and The Costco Connection called the book "history as exciting as any work of fiction."

Henderson's national bestseller, Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War, is the story of U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler, who was shot down over Laos in January 1966 and escaped from a Pathet Lao POW camp six months later. Henderson and Dengler served together on the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA-61) in 1965–66.