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The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam

The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam

Sachs, Dana

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryPregnancy & AdoptionVietnam War

ISBN10: 0807001244
ISBN13: 9780807001240
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Jul 26 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U.S. government launched Operation Babylift, a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children and settle them with adoptive families overseas. Now, thirty-five years after the war ended, Dana Sachs examines this unprecedented event more carefully, revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives, not always for the better. The Life We Were Given will inspire impassioned discussion and spur dialogue on the human cost of war, international adoption and aid efforts, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

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