Escape with Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam (Memories of War) - Softcover

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.

As the government of South Vietnam was collapsing and communist troops were closing in, American diplomat Francis Terry McNamara led more than 300 Americans, Vietnamese, and Filipinos down a tributary of the Mekong River to safety. This is his dramatic true account of leadership, courage, and commitment.