They are all my family
Subtitle: a daring rescue in the chaos of Saigon's fall
By: John P. Riordan with Monique Brinson Demery
Contributors: Demery, Monique Brinson, 1976- author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781610395038
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; American Humanitarian assistance; American Personal narratives; Refugees; History
Description: "In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War in April 1975, as Americans fled and their Vietnamese allies and employees prepared for the worst, John Riordan, the assistant manager of Citibank's Saigon branch, succeeded in rescuing 105 Vietnamese. They were his 33 Vietnamese staff members and their families. Unable to secure exit papers for the employees, Citibank ordered Riordan to leave the country alone. Safe in Hong Kong, Riordan could not imagine leaving behind his employees and defied instructions from his superiors not to return to Saigon. But once he did make it back on the last commercial flight, his actions were daring and ingenious. Decades later, Riordan has located the Vietnamese and reconnected with them, sharing accounts of those frantic days and the derring-do it took to get them out to safety"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: April 3, Saigon : the call; title: The ides of March, 1975; title: April 3, disaster preparedness; title: April 3, money on fire; title: April 4, leaving Saigon; title: April 5-12, Hong Kong; title: April 14, Saigon briefings; title: April 17th, dinner in Hong Kong; title: April 18th, return to Saigon; title: April 19-20, weekend in Saigon; title: April 21, breaking curfew, Saigon; title: April 22, day one; title: April 23-24, day two and three; title: April 25th, day four; title: April 26th, flying out; title: The end of April.