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Although ESCAPE WITH HONOR was first published eight years ago, it makes particularly timely reading now. In it, one of the illustrious Foreign Service Officers of our generation, Amb. Terry McNamara, recounts the story of how he closed the U.S. consulate in the Mekong Delta and led his staff and several hundred Vietnamese down that river to safety as the South Vietnamese government collapsed. The book is concise, the story riveting. --Amb. Michael W. Cotter

An event as apocalyptic as the collapse of an entire society . . . brings out the essential character of everyone caught up in the drama. As Escape with Honor vividly demonstrates, Terry McNamara's essential character mixes compassion with fierce loyalty and an almost superhuman resourcefulness. What he did to get his Vietnamese colleagues out to the Mekong Delta in the chaotic closing weeks of the war in Vietnam is a shining example of heroic grace under pressure.

Although Escape with Honor was first published eight years ago, it makes particularly timely reading now. In it, one of the illustrious Foreign Service Officers of our generation, Amb. Terry McNamara, recounts the story of how he closed the U.S. consulate in the Mekong Delta and led his staff and several hundred Vietnamese down that river to safety as the South Vietnamese government collapsed. The book is concise, the story riveting. An event as apocalyptic as the collapse of an entire society . . . brings out the essential character of everyone caught up in the drama. As Escape with Honor vividly demonstrates, Terry McNamara's essential character mixes compassion with fierce loyalty and an almost superhuman resourcefulness. What he did to get his Vietnamese colleagues out to the Mekong Delta in the chaotic closing weeks of the war in Vietnam is a shining example of heroic grace under pressure. Gripping . . . dramatic . . . a thrilling story about the Foreign Service that deserves to be read. The work of a compassionate, literate man . . . this is an inside view of the final days of the American presence in Vietnam. More importantly, it is an informative, uplifting inside view of how people cope in times of chaos. Although ESCAPE WITH HONOR was first published eight years ago, it makes particularly timely reading now. In it, one of the illustrious Foreign Service Officers of our generation, Amb. Terry McNamara, recounts the story of how he closed the U.S. consulate in the Mekong Delta and led his staff and several hundred Vietnamese down that river to safety as the South Vietnamese government collapsed. The book is concise, the story riveting. --Amb. Michael W. Cotter

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