Two very different new books – “The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace and Redemption in Vietnam” and “Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians” – …
Fifty years ago, the last American combat troops left Vietnam, although there’d be an American presence there until the fall of Saigon two years later. A half-century on, the war there may no longer be the defining catastrophe of American foreign policy in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the saga still intrigues and infuriates.
While Black’s book is heavily researched with a broad scope covering decades, “Getting Out of Saigon,” is a more intimate tale that reads like a thriller set in the fateful and chaotic two weeks in April 1975 when the last Americans finally fled. Ralph White was sent to Saigon by Chase to keep their branch open till the last possible moment. He focused instead on how to get the bank’s Vietnamese employees out of the country and to safety despite an utter lack of official help from the U.S.
For instance, I wrote about why so many of the worst impacts of the war are concentrated in a very, very small area about the size of Connecticut. There’s recent scholarship by academics who have gotten into the Vietnamese archives that recast the idea that most Americans have that this war was run by the great military genius, General [Võ Nguyên] Giáp and commanded by Ho Chi Minh.
I had a pilot’s license. I could helm a vessel. I carried a gun. I had bribe money. But those out-of-the-box ideas did not come to fruition. What worked was sleuthing and stealth and willfulness.
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