Operation Babylift
The incredible story of the inspiring Australian women who rescued hundreds of orphans at the end of the Vietnam War
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 extensiv…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7336-4225-8
- EAN: 9780733642258
- Produktnummer: 31350419
- Verlag: Hachette Australia
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 709 KB
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Ian W. Shaw
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