Desperate Praise: The Australians in Vietnam edited by John J Coe

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor marks on foredges. Insect damage to tail edge of pages 83-86. Binding is still very good.

A collection of earthy, humorous and sometimes sad, sometimes racy but honest accounts of life in that squalid hell-hole known as Vietnam. (back cover)

John Coe was in the Australian Army from 1967 to 1972. He served in Vietnam for eighteen months during 1968/69 as a sapper with 1 Field Squadron.