How the church survived the final days of the Vietnam War Who lives? Who dies? A Vietnamese conference president and his staff wrestled all night with that decision. First published in 1990 as Saigon: The Final Days; this updated edition tells of the dramatic evacuation of Seventh-day Adventist Vietnamese and overseas personnel as the North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon. Ralph Watts; who directed the evacuation; gives his eyewitness account of the mayhem and its impact on the church. A page turner from start to finish; Escape From Saigon revisits the chaos of 1975 and provides much-anticipated updates on the state of the Adventist work in Vietnam today.