Operation Babylift, Ian W. Shaw
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Operation Babylift, Ian W. Shaw
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographic references and index
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Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Operation Babylift
Responsibility statement
Ian W. Shaw
Summary
In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety. Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the war, building up a complex of nurseries to house war orphans and street waifs as the organisation that built up around them facilitated international adoptions for the children. As the North Vietnamese forces closed in on their nurseries, they needed a plan to evacuate the children, or all their work might count for little... Based on extensive archival and historical research, and interviews of some of those directly involved in the events described, Operation Babylift details the last month of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the most vulnerable victims of that war: the orphans it created. Through the story of the attempt to save 600 children, we see how a small group of determined women refused to play political games as they tried to remake the lives of a forgotten generation, one child at a time
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Operation Baby lift
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- Orphans -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Operation Babylift, 1975
- Refugee children -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Nonfiction
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Refugees
- Large print books
- Airlift, Military -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Intercountry adoption -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Large print books
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Children
- Children and war -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject11
- Orphans -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Operation Babylift, 1975
- Refugee children -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Nonfiction
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Refugees
- Large print books
- Airlift, Military -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Intercountry adoption -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Large print books
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Children
- Children and war -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- Content2
- Author1