Honourable Exit - Thurston Clarke

In the last days of the Vietnam War more than 130000 South Vietnamese were saved from their otherwise dire fate by the heroic acts of ordinary Americans. This groundbreaking account by New York Times-bestselling author Thurston Clarke uncovers a previously untold story of bravery and honour. 1973. US participation in the Vietnam War ends. As troops withdraw President Nixon pledges to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. 1975. North Vietnam begins a full-scale assault on the South. Congress does nothing. Hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese face execution or life in concentration camps. An iconic photograph is taken of the Fall of Saigon depicting desperate Vietnamese people scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last of the American soldiers. It is an image of US failure and shame. Or is it? In Honourable Exit Clarke revisits the last days of the Vietnam War to uncover the previously untold story of a life-saving mass evacuation. During those final days a number of Americans - diplomats businessmen soldiers missionaries contractors and spies - risked their lives and disobeyed orders to help their translators drivers colleagues neighbours friends and even perfect strangers to escape. By the time the last US helicopter left Vietnam on 30 April 1975 these heroic Americans had helped to spirit over 130000 South Vietnamese to resettlement in the US and life as American citizens. Groundbreaking page-turning and authoritative Honourable Exit is a deeply moving history of Americans in one of their little-known finest hours.

TITLE: Honourable Exit

AUTHOR: Thurston Clarke

SKU: 9781912854349

PUBLISHER: Scribe Publications

DATE PUBLISHED: 09/05/2019

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 448

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 234 mm x 36 mm