A gift of barbed wire : America's allies abandoned in South Vietnam /

"A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975." "Some of the people interviewed for the book eventually reached the United States as boat people fleeing Vietnam in unsa...

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Main Author: McKelvey, Robert S. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Seattle, Washington ; London, England : University of Washington Press, 2002
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