Vietnam : the Australian war / Paul Ham.

By: Ham, PaulMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2008Description: xviii, 814 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780732287801 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Vietnam War (1961-1975) | 1961 - 1975 | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Australian | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Australia | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Political aspects -- Australia | Vietnamkrieg | Buddhism and politics | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Australian | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Australia | Military campaigns | Military participation -- Australian | Protest movements | Vietnamkrieg | 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 | Australien | Australia | Australien | Vietnam War (Australia,Vietnam)DDC classification: 959.7043394 LOC classification: DS558.6.A8 | H36 2008Other classification: 8 Online resources: Inhaltsverzeichnis | Table of contents
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. One `The place' -- ch. 1 Three thousand years -- ch. 2 The French -- ch. 3 Ho and Giap -- ch. 4 The Red menace -- ch. 5 The two Vietnams -- ch. 6 Viet Cong -- ch. 7 Enter the Americans -- pt. Two First contacts -- ch. 8 The quiet Australian -- ch. 9 The Team -- ch. 10 The Montagnard chief -- ch. 11 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment -- ch. 12 The Iron Triangle -- ch. 13 Cu Chi -- pt. Three The Australian province -- ch. 14 Nashos -- ch. 15 To Nui Dat -- ch. 16 The village -- ch. 17 Long Tan --- warnings -- ch. 18 Long Tan --- action -- ch. 19 Long Tan --- aftermath -- pt. Four All the way ... -- ch. 20 ... with LBJ -- ch. 21 Draft dodgers -- ch. 22 R&R -- ch. 23 February 1967 -- ch. 24 The minefield -- ch. 25 The hamlet without a soul -- ch. 26 To January 1968 -- pt. Five The Year of the Monkey -- ch. 27 The Tet Offensive -- ch. 28 Coral -- ch. 29 Balmoral -- ch. 30 The air war -- ch. 31 The press offensive -- ch. 32 Body count --
Contents note continued: ch. 33 A politicians' war -- pt. Six WHAM -- ch. 34 Australian Viet Cong -- ch. 35 Accelerated pacification -- ch. 36 Binh Ba -- ch. 37 Vietnamisation -- pt. Seven Homecoming -- ch. 38 Morale -- ch. 39 Moratorium -- ch. 40 Platoon -- ch. 41 Last days -- ch. 42 `Baby-killers' -- pt. Eight Endings -- ch. 43 The North invades -- ch. 44 The fall of Saigon -- ch. 45 Cabramatta -- ch. 46 Agents Orange, Purple, White, Green, Pink, Blue ... -- ch. 47 `Totally and permanently incapacitated' -- ch. 48 Welcome home -- ch. 49 ... borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Summary: This extraordinary, sweeping account, draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and itnerviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a :country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.
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Previously published: 2007.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 747-777.

Machine generated contents note: pt. One `The place' -- ch. 1 Three thousand years -- ch. 2 The French -- ch. 3 Ho and Giap -- ch. 4 The Red menace -- ch. 5 The two Vietnams -- ch. 6 Viet Cong -- ch. 7 Enter the Americans -- pt. Two First contacts -- ch. 8 The quiet Australian -- ch. 9 The Team -- ch. 10 The Montagnard chief -- ch. 11 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment -- ch. 12 The Iron Triangle -- ch. 13 Cu Chi -- pt. Three The Australian province -- ch. 14 Nashos -- ch. 15 To Nui Dat -- ch. 16 The village -- ch. 17 Long Tan --- warnings -- ch. 18 Long Tan --- action -- ch. 19 Long Tan --- aftermath -- pt. Four All the way ... -- ch. 20 ... with LBJ -- ch. 21 Draft dodgers -- ch. 22 R&R -- ch. 23 February 1967 -- ch. 24 The minefield -- ch. 25 The hamlet without a soul -- ch. 26 To January 1968 -- pt. Five The Year of the Monkey -- ch. 27 The Tet Offensive -- ch. 28 Coral -- ch. 29 Balmoral -- ch. 30 The air war -- ch. 31 The press offensive -- ch. 32 Body count --

Contents note continued: ch. 33 A politicians' war -- pt. Six WHAM -- ch. 34 Australian Viet Cong -- ch. 35 Accelerated pacification -- ch. 36 Binh Ba -- ch. 37 Vietnamisation -- pt. Seven Homecoming -- ch. 38 Morale -- ch. 39 Moratorium -- ch. 40 Platoon -- ch. 41 Last days -- ch. 42 `Baby-killers' -- pt. Eight Endings -- ch. 43 The North invades -- ch. 44 The fall of Saigon -- ch. 45 Cabramatta -- ch. 46 Agents Orange, Purple, White, Green, Pink, Blue ... -- ch. 47 `Totally and permanently incapacitated' -- ch. 48 Welcome home -- ch. 49 ... borne back ceaselessly into the past.

This extraordinary, sweeping account, draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and itnerviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a :country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.

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