Physical description

White book with a picture of two women in green uniforms, one of whom is holding a baby, in front of a building with a corrugated roof. The title 'OPERATION BABYLIFT' is printed above the image in green, followed by the author's name in red text. At the top of the page it reads "The incredible story of the inspiring Australian women who rescued hundreds of orphans at the end of the Vietnam War".

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

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.--[From Trove]