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Summary:

"This memoir is based on the detailed journal Claudia Krich, a U.S. aid worker, kept during the North Vietnamese capture of Saigon in 1975. A co-director of an American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) humanitarian program, Krich was one of only three American women to remain in Saigon after the U.S. withdrawal, and readers glean insights into what happened in Saigon in the first days and months after the Americans had left Saigon and the North Vietnamese swiftly established their regime. Her narrative is supplemented by historical and personal reflections penned by American and Vietnamese contemporaries"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Prologue : Before Sài Gòn
• Increasing Tensions
• Fear and Panic
• Liberation, or The Fall of Vịêt Nam
• Changing Flags
• The First Few Days
• Ýên Is in Charge
• Getting Organized
• We Are Detained, and Other Events
• Changes, Changes
• Celebrations
• Interesting Characters
• H̀ô Chí Minh's Birthday
• Day by Day
• Tiger Cages and Politics
• Adjusting and Adapting
• Immunizations and Red Tape
• "Rockets" and News
• A Culture of Visiting
• Yes, I Am

• Chị Mai, Ýên, and Dung
• The Future
• We're Leaving
• Epilogue.

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Author/Creator:

Krich, Claudia, 1948- , author

Contributors:

Porter, Gareth, 1942- , writer of supplementary textual content

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Those who stayed: a Vietnam diary [by Krich, C.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Those who stayed [by Krich, C.] (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025 — ISBN 9780813952352; LCCN 2024017782)

Subjects:

Krich, Claudia, 1948- — Diaries

American Friends Service Committee — Biography

Humanitarian aid workers — Vietnam — Diaries

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Personal narratives, American

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Vietnam — Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Civilian relief

Humanitarian assistance, American — Vietnam — History

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Women — United States — Biography

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

ISBNs:

9780813952376 (ebook)
0813952379
9780813952352 (hardback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024017783

OCLC Numbers:

1452736181

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31531492 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21375187