From the back cover:
""Lost…Starving…Unwanted…
they were the tens of thousands of children in Vietnam left to wander the country aimlessly. It was Vietnam's greatest tragedy…children caught in the crossfire of war…too incidental for the concerns of generals, and all uncertain of their fate under the advancing North Vietnamese Army.
"The War Cradle" tells of the events leading up to the last days of the Vietnam War and of the search and rescue of the oppressed orphans. The American soldier was confronted with the misery of the children at every turn. Sometimes they were his friend…sometimes the enemy. Stalwart nuns sheltered sick and dying babies in poverty-ridden orphanages and looked to the West for salvation and safe homes.""