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 fellow Australian Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam looking after thousands of children orphaned or abandoned during this brutal time. But as the North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, the danger escalated. The threat of bombings, civil violence and food shortages was very real. They needed a plan to evacuate the children, and it was truly a matter of life or death…
Ian W. Shaw - Operation Babylift
Type: Paperback
Condition: (Pre-owned) Acceptable -Wear on cover/discolouring on page edges
Size: 23.4 x 15.5 cm
Pages: 315
Weight: 427g
Please Note: Some photos may have a glare and/or shadowing due to light.
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 fellow Australian Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam looking after thousands of children orphaned or abandoned during this brutal time. But as the North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, the danger escalated. The threat of bombings, civil violence and food shortages was very real. They needed a plan to evacuate the children, and it was truly a matter of life or death…
Ian W. Shaw - Operation Babylift
Type: Paperback
Condition: (Pre-owned) Acceptable -Wear on cover/discolouring on page edges
Size: 23.4 x 15.5 cm
Pages: 315
Weight: 427g
Please Note: Some photos may have a glare and/or shadowing due to light.
