Last Men Out: The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam

This dramatic story of the rescue of thousands of U.S. personnel and Vietnamese from Saigon in the last twenty-four hours of the Vietnam war is told primarily through the courageous actions of the eleven men who were the last to be flown off the U.S. embassy roof. They were rescued from certain death just moments before capture after taking a vow to fight to the death. Among them: Marine Captain Gerry Berry, who piloted his helicopter for eighteen hours straight and had to forcibly carry off the American Ambassador, and General Richard Carey, who insisted that he would shoot any American who ordered choppers grounded while there were still Marines in Saigon. Based on unprecedented access to the transmissions between helicopter pilots, officers, and officials in Saigon, Last Men Out unfolds with heart-stopping urgency - a riveting true story finally told by those who lived it.