The Resource Vietnam : the Australian war, Paul Ham
Vietnam : the Australian war, Paul Ham
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The item Vietnam : the Australian war, Paul Ham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Vietnam : the Australian war, Paul Ham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- This extraordinary, sweeping account draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and interviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Illustrated ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 812 p., [16] p. of plates
- Note
- First published: 2007
- Contents
-
- 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--L ast 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
- Isbn
- 9780732289669
- Label
- Vietnam : the Australian war
- Title
- Vietnam
- Title remainder
- the Australian war
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Ham
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This extraordinary, sweeping account draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and interviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ham, Paul
- Dewey number
- 959.7043394
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- Vietnam : the Australian war, Paul Ham
- Note
- First published: 2007
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [760]-783) and index
- Contents
- 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--L ast 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
- Control code
- 000045351750
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Illustrated ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 812 p., [16] p. of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780732289669
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill., maps, ports.
- Label
- Vietnam : the Australian war, Paul Ham
- Note
- First published: 2007
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [760]-783) and index
- Contents
- 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--L ast 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
- Control code
- 000045351750
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Illustrated ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 812 p., [16] p. of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780732289669
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill., maps, ports.
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