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Vietnam : the Australian war / Paul Ham.

Vietnam : the Australian war / Paul Ham.
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ANF 959.7043394 HAM
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ISBN 9780732282370 (hbk.)
Classification 959.7043394 HAM
Personal Name Ham, Paul
Title Vietnam : the Australian war / Paul Ham.
Publication Details Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2007.
Physical Description xviii, 814 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 747-777.
Contents Note The place--Three thousand years--The French--Ho and Giap--The Red menace--The two Vietnams--Viet Cong--Enter the Americans----First contacts--The quiet Australian--The team--The Montagnard chief--1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment--The Iron triangle--Cu Chi----The Australian province--Nashos--To Nui Dat--The village--Long Tan-warnings--action--aftermath----All the way--with LBJ--Draft dodgers--R & R--February 1967--The minefield--The hamlet without a soul--To January 1968----The Year of the monkey--The Tet offensive--Coral--Balmoral--The air war--The press offensive--Body count--A politician's war----WHAM--Australian Viet Cong--Accelerated pacification--Binh Ba--Vietnamisation----Homecoming--Morale--Moratorium--Platoon--Last days--'Baby-killers'----Endings--The North invades--The fall of Saigon--Cabramatta--Agents orange, purple, white, green, pink, blue--'Totally and permanently incapacitated'--Welcome home--Borne back ceaselessly into the past----Vietnam War Honour Roll--Units involved in Vietnam.
Summary Note "The participation by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam conflict (1962-1975), including political background, accounts of battles and operations in Vietnam, soldiers' personal histories, and with reference to the anti-war movement."--Provided by publisher.
Subject - Topical Term Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Australian
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Political aspects -- Australia
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Australia
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2008)
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