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The life we were given : Operation Babylift, international adoption, and the children of war in Vietnam / Dana Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachs, Dana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Children.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees.
- Airlift, Military--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Airlift, Military.
- Children and war--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Children and war.
- Refugee children--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Refugee children.
- Orphans--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Orphans.
- Intercountry adoption--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Describes the history of Operation Babylift, the U.S. government's plan to airlift 3,000 displaced Vietnamese children before the fall of Saigon, and examines the lives of the displaced children after the operation.
- Contents:
- Where they came from
- All Americans go home now
- A sea of human need
- If you are out there, we love you and we are looking for you
- Lost in the shuffle
- Standing on two legs
- Good intentions
- Mementoes and scars
- Ships to parents : severe orphan syndrome
- There was no one to take care of them
- Photographs and fires and rage
- I wanted to see what peace was like
- Hesitation and resignation
- Resources
- Baby in a burning building
- Belonging.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8070-4242-0
- OCLC:
- 607554804
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