
Escape With Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam
Series: Diplomats and Diplomacy Author: Hill, Adrian & McNamara, Francis Terry Category: American history: Vietnam War, Diplomats and Diplomacy Publisher: Brassey's US & UK (1997) ISBN: 978-1574886931 Pages: 240 More Details
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During a 37-year Foreign Service career, Terry McNamara had three postings in Vietnam—as provincial adviser with the CORDS program, first principal officer in Danang, and consul general in Can Tho. Escape with Honor tells the true story of then–Consul General McNamara’s harrowing evacuation from Can Tho down the Mekong River by boat, carrying over 300 U.S. and Foreign Service National staff and family members, on April 29–30, 1975.
McNamara also served in seven African posts, was ambassador in Gabon and São Tomé y Principe and in Cape Verde, and is the author of France in Black Africa. Earlier, he served in the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Service.
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“The work of a compassionate, literate man . . . this is an inside view of the final days of the American presence in Vietnam. More important, it is an informative, uplifting inside view of how people cope in times of chaos.”
Publishers Weekly, Aug. 18, 1997
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