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03056aam a2200493 i 4500 001 E88788B6F32A11EA95F7193D42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200910010011 008 191206s2019 xnab g 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019394201 020 $a 073364225X 020 $a 9780733642258 020 $a 0733642241 020 $a 9780733642241 035 $a (OCoLC)1102318766 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d AUPTL $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ATXTM $d AU@ $d OCLCO $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Shaw, Ian W. $e author. 245 10 $a Operation Babylift : $b the incredible story of the inspiring Australian women who rescued hundreds of orphans at the end of the Vietnam War / $c Ian W. Shaw (author). 264 1 $a Sydney, NSW : $b Hachette Australia, $c 2019. 300 $a xx, 314 pages, $b map ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Includes index and endnotes. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308) and index. 520 $a In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety. Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the war, building up a complex of nurseries to house war orphans and street waifs as the organisation that built up around them facilitated international adoptions for the children. As the North Vietnamese forces closed in on their nurseries, they needed a plan to evacuate the children, or all their work might count for little ... Based on extensive archival and historical research, and interviews of some of those directly involved in the events described, Operation Babylift details the last month of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the most vulnerable victims of that war: the orphans it created. Through the story of the attempt to save 600 children, we see how a small group of determined women refused to play political games as they tried to remake the lives of a forgotten generation, one child at a time. 600 10 $a Moir, Elaine, 1937-2012. 600 10 $a Taylor, Rosemary, $d 1938- 600 10 $a Moses, Margaret. 600 10 $a Makk, Gyoparka Maria. 650 0 $a Volunteer workers in social service $v Biography. 650 0 $a Abandoned children $z Vietnam. 650 0 $a Adopted children $z Vietnam. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $z Vietnam $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Orphans $z Vietnam. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption $z Australia. 650 0 $a Operation Babylift, 1975. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Children. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Refugees. 650 0 $a Children and war $z Vietnam $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Refugee children $z Vietnam $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Airlift, Military $z Vietnam $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780733642258 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20200910010452.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E88788B6F32A11EA95F7193D42ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search