The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most Famous Hispanic War Hero - Hardcoverby William Sturkey (Author) The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer" (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Frederick Douglass) In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at