A Gift of Barbed Wire
Subtitle: America's Allies Abandoned in Vietnam
Contributors: Josef Helfenstein (Editor); Jonathan Fineberg (Editor)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: August 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780295982250
Subjects: Asia - Southeast Asia; History - General History; 1975-; Political prisoners; Politics and government; Vietnam; History: World
Description: "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 unsafe vessels; others arrived, after rigorous screening, through U.S. Government-sponsored programs. But even in the safety of the United States they had to begin anew, devoting all of their remaining energies to survival."--BOOK JACKET.