Stories from the sudden end of a long war.
NBC news reporter DAvid Butler was there. He witnessed the apocalypic departure of the U.S. from the rooftops of Saigon-the passionate end of a war that divided America for a decade. Now he recreates the pulse and feel of that climatic event, and the tumultuous weeks before it that marked the collapse of Vietnam, with a book so powerful, so immediate, that it reads with the authority of the best history and the excitement of great fiction.
..taken from the back cover of the book
NBC news reporter DAvid Butler was there. He witnessed the apocalypic departure of the U.S. from the rooftops of Saigon-the passionate end of a war that divided America for a decade. Now he recreates the pulse and feel of that climatic event, and the tumultuous weeks before it that marked the collapse of Vietnam, with a book so powerful, so immediate, that it reads with the authority of the best history and the excitement of great fiction.
..taken from the back cover of the book