HONORABLE EXIT: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
by Clarke, Thurston
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in near fine dust jacket./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385539649
- ISBN 13
- 9780385539647
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:: Doubleday,, (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which begins with "describing the iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon: desperate Vietnamese scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last American personnel from Vietnam. It is an image of U.S. failure and shame. Or is it? By unpacking the surprising story of heroism that the photograph actually tells, Clarke launches into a narrative that is an important corrective to the historical record. For what is less known is that during those final days, scores of Americans - diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, contractors, and spies - risked their lives to assist their current and former translators, drivers, colleagues, neighbors, friends, and even perfect strangers in escape. By the time the last U.S. helicopter left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, these righteous Americans had helped to spirit 130,000 South Vietnamese to U.S. bases in Guam and the Philippines." Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xii, 430 pp. Map endpapers.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86405
- Title
- HONORABLE EXIT: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
- Author
- Clarke, Thurston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385539649
- ISBN 13
- 9780385539647
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2019)
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: USA;
Terms of Sale
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Free media mail shipping in US included; priority is $7.50 and international at cost. Books are packed carefully, shipped promptly with delivery confirmation and insurance at our expense. It is important for our customers to be totally satisfied with their purchase and guarantee all of our books to be as described. Want lists welcomed.
About the Seller
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Ione, California
About Bookfever.com, IOBA
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...