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They are all my family, a daring rescue in the chaos of Saigon's fall, John P. Riordan with Monique Brinson Demery

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They are all my family

John P. Riordan with Monique Brinson Demery

a daring rescue in the chaos of Saigon's fall

Riordan -- who had left the military behind for a career in international banking -- was not the type to take dramatic action, but once the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon in April 1975 and it was clear that Riordan's Vietnamese colleagues and their families would be stranded in a city teetering on total collapse, he knew that he could not leave them behind. Defying the objections of his superiors and going against the official policy of the United States, Riordan went back into Saigon to save them. In fifteen harrowing trips to Saigon's airport, he manoeuvred through the bureaucratic shambles, claiming that the Vietnamese were his wife and scores of children. "They Are All My Family" is a vivid narrative of one man's ingenious strategy that transformed a time of enormous peril into a display of extraordinary courage

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