Description
Title: Australia’s War in Vietnam
Author: Frost, Frank
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0043550024
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 211 pages
Comments: Four decades ago, Australians were at war in Vietnam. By the time the engagement had ended, 47 000 Australians had participated in the most controversial military involvement in Australia’s recent history. While debate on the Vietnam involvement occupied the newspaper headlines, the soldiers of the Australian Task Force confronted the day-to-day realities of the conflict—for five and a half years.This book offers the first detailed account of the strategy, policies and experience of the force which was based at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province from 1966 to 1971.
Australia sent its forces to Vietnam to bolster its alliance with the United States and to oppose what its government portrayed as an ‘invasion from the north’. But the soldiers of the Task Force found that operating with an imprecisely defined role, as part of an American war machine, with a disorganised Vietnamese ally, presented intractable problems. This book analyses in detail the dilemmas and dangers that resulted.
