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  title info:
    title: Honorable exit
    sub title: how a few brave Americans risked all to save our Vietnamese allies at the end of the war
  name:
    name part: Clarke, Thurston
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In 1973, the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a U.S. withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. But in early 1975, when North Vietnamese forces began to attack, Congress refused to send arms or aid. By April 5, the South was on the brink of defeat, spelling execution or years in a concentration camp for the untold number of South Vietnamese who had supported the government in Saigon or worked with Americans. Clarke launches into a narrative that is both a thrilling race against time and an important corrective to the historical record. For what is less known is that during those final days, scores of Americans, diplomats, soldiers, missionaries, contractors and spies, risked their lives to help their former translators, drivers, colleagues, neighbors and friends escape. By the time the last U.S. helicopter left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, these righteous Americans had spirited 130,000 South Vietnamese to U.S. bases in Guam and the Philippines. The evacuees were resettled in the United States and became American citizens, the leading edge of one of America's most successful immigrant groups. Into this tale of heroism on the ground, Clarke weaves the political machinations of Henry Kissinger advising President Ford in the White House while nursing the delusions of the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon, who refused to depart. Groundbreaking, page turning and authoritative, Honorable Exit is a deeply moving history of Americans at a little known finest hour.
  table of contents: Principal characters -- Prologue: The man in the white shirt -- Omens -- Walter Martindale's convoy -- Who lost Vietnam? -- Designated fall guy -- "I'd tell the president that!" -- "In the shadow of a corkscrew" -- Palpable fear -- Operation Babylift -- "People are going to feel badly" -- "No guarantees!" -- Playing God -- "Godspeed" -- "Make it happen" -- "I won't go for that" -- Kissinger's cable -- Richard Armitage's courageous silence -- Eighteen optimistic minutes -- Frequent wind -- Ken Moorefield's odyssey -- Into the South China Sea -- The 420.
  note: Thurston Clarke.
  note: Maps on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-vt---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    geographic: Vietnam (Republic)
    topic: Evacuation of civilians
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Campaigns
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Diplomatic history
  subject:
    geographic: Vietnam (Republic)
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Vietnam (Republic)
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / United States
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
  classification: DS557.7 .C53 2019
  classification: 959.704/31
  identifier: 9780385539647
  identifier: 0385539649
  identifier: 2018029232
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180829
    record change date: 20190718165511.0
    record identifier: in00004065011