Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
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Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780732282370
Author: Paul Ham
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2007
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 832 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some chipping to top and tail edges. Dust jacket has creasing to top and tail. Right front cover tail corner now protected with book tape.

For the first time, this is the full story of Australia's involvement in our longest military campaign.

Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm to civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very different from those of the Americans. Guided by their commanders' experience of jungle combat, Australian troops operated with stealth, deception and restraint in pursuing a 'better war'.

Drawing on hundreds of accounts by soldiers, politicians, aid workers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people, Paul Ham reconstructs for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign. From the commitment to engage, through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti-war movement, to the tactics and horror of the battlefield, Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war that sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women.

More than 500 soldiers were killed and thousands wounded. those who made it home returned to a hostile and ignorant country and a reception that scarred them forever.

This is their story. Paul Ham's Vietnam: The Australian War was awarded the Australian History Prize at the 2008 NSW Premier's Awards. the judges praised Ham for his comprehensive approach to Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and his ability to communicate with specialists and general readers. (publisher blurb)

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