Australia And The Vietnam War

Author : Peter (Fullarton) Edwards
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742241678

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Australia and the Vietnam War by Peter (Fullarton) Edwards Pdf

The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the twentieth century, ending in humiliation for the United States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam. The war provoked deep divisions in Australian society and politics, particularly since for the first time young men were conscripted for overseas service in a highly contentious ballot system. The Vietnam era is still identified with diplomatic, military and political failure. Was Vietnam a case of Australia fighting ‘other people’s wars’? Were we really ‘all the way’ with the United States? How valid was the ‘domino theory’? Did the Australian forces develop new tactical methods in earlier Southeast Asian conflicts, and just how successful were they against the unyielding enemy in Vietnam? In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skilfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonisation in Southeast Asia and Australian domestic politics to provide new, often surprising, answers to these questions.

Author : John Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429710766

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Harvest Of Fear by John Murphy Pdf

How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia? What was the nature of the Vietnamese revolution, which some 50 000 Australian troops failed to reverse in the 1960s? How did a small and marginal peace movement grow into the powerful Moratorium and did it have any impact on the course of the War? Harvest of Fear is a beautifully craf

Author : Bruce Davies,Gary McKay
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743315590

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Vietnam by Bruce Davies,Gary McKay Pdf

Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam war comes an objective analysis of Australia's involvement. The book shows the extent of Australia's engagement in the Vietnam war and its contribution compared to its allies.

Author : Albert Palazzo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921941221

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Australian Military Operations In Vietnam by Albert Palazzo Pdf

From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the United States in fighting a communist inspired insurgency war in the jungles of South Vietnam against infiltrators who sought to overthrow the local government. Over 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 519 lost their lives, and the conflict ended ignominiously in the insurgents' victory. Over 30 years later, Australia again finds itself joined with the United States in a struggle against an insurgency, this time in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. Although now in the past, the Vietnam War resonates with lessons for the Australian Army as it strives to defeat not Communism but Terrorism. Australian Military Operations in Vietnam highlights some of the successes and failures of an earlier generation of officers for the benefit of today's leaders.

Author : Jeff Doyle,Jeffrey Grey,Peter Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055194552

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Australia's Vietnam War by Jeff Doyle,Jeffrey Grey,Peter Pierce Pdf

Today the mere mention of Vietnam conjures up images of protest in American streets and tensions so strong they divided a country. Yet the United States did not fight alone. Comparatively little is known about Australia's experience-its motives for entering the conflict, national support for Australia's role there, and how that nation dealt with the aftermath of war. Here, Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, and Peter Pierce chronicle Australia's complicated involvement in Vietnam. Australia's decision to participate in the conflict was part of a collective Western effort to stop Communist expansion. It was also a price willingly paid for assurances of American intervention in the event of an Indonesian attack on Australia. Through an evaluation of the literature arising from Vietnam, the manner in which Australia memorialized its fallen veterans, and other expressions of the war's influences, this book offers important insights into the healing process nations face following such conflicts.

Author : Ian McNeill,Ashley Ekins
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1863733043

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On the Offensive by Ian McNeill,Ashley Ekins Pdf

On the Offensive is the eighth volume of the Official History of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975, and the second of three volumes on Australian ground operations in Vietnam.

Author : Mark Dapin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Australia
ISBN : 036930697X

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Australia's Vietnam by Mark Dapin Pdf

Why everything you think you know about Australia's Vietnam War is wrong When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myth. From army claims that every national serviceman was a volunteer; and the level of atrocities committed by Australian troops; to the belief there were no welcome home parades until the late 1980s and returned soldiers were met by angry protesters. Australia's Vietnam is a major contribution to the understanding of Australia's experience of the war and will change the way we think about memory and military history.

Author : Paul Ham
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780732287801

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Vietnam by Paul Ham Pdf

A study of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, including an in-depth history of Vietnam.

Author : Scott Brodie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 1875113363

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Australia in the Vietnam War by Scott Brodie Pdf

Author : Greg Lockhart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741141061

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The Minefield by Greg Lockhart Pdf

A history of the Australian minefield laid in the Phuc Tuy Province in 1967 that played havoc with Australia's military operations in Vietnam and constituted the greatest tactical blunder in Australian military history since World War Two.

Author : Albert Palazzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458738477

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Australian Military Operations in Vietnam by Albert Palazzo Pdf

Author : Cameron Macintosh,Robert Hillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 1442540400

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Vietnam War by Cameron Macintosh,Robert Hillman Pdf

This series looks at Australia.s involvement in each of the three 20th century wars both on the battlefields and at home: World War 1, World War II and the Vietnam War. Each book examines the reasons for the war, why Australia was involved, where Australians fought, famous battles, women at war, the war effort at home and how the wars ended.

Author : Effie Karageorgos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472585813

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Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam by Effie Karageorgos Pdf

The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldiers written while on the South African and Vietnam battlefields reveal that their reactions to the war they were fighting were surprisingly unlike those on the home fronts from which they came. Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam follows these combat men from enlistment to the war front and analyses their words alongside theories of soldiering to demonstrate the transformation of soldiers as a response to developments in military procedure, as well as changing civilian opinion. In this way, the book illustrates the strength of a soldier's link to their home front lives.

Author : Ron Boxall,Robert O’Neill
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760463335

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Vietnam Vanguard by Ron Boxall,Robert O’Neill Pdf

The Vietnam War, and Australia’s part in it, was a major military event, calling for willingness to face death and destruction on the battlefield on the part of those sent there, especially the men of our infantry battalions who formed the spearhead of our forces in Vietnam. For many reasons, the Australian public know relatively little about what our Army did in Vietnam during the war, particularly during the years of our peak commitment, 1965–72. This book attempts to make the true nature of the war clearer to readers, emphasising how hard fought it was during major operations. Twenty-seven of the contributing authors of this book were involved in the 1966 deployment of the 1st Australian Task Force into Phuoc Tuy Province. This formation was the first Australian Army force larger than an infantry battalion group to be deployed into a major war since World War II. 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (5 RAR), was in the vanguard as the task force’s first element committed to operations to seize and occupy Nui Dat base and embark on establishing dominance over the enemy. The narratives presented in this book give rare insights into thoughts of the soldiers at the time and how they have come to view the Australian Government’s hurried expansion of its initial commitment to that war, the Army’s state of preparedness for that wider involvement, and how those in its forefront adapted to get the job done, both in and out of operations, despite numerous shortcomings in higher level planning. Both professional soldiers and conscripted national servicemen have contributed viewpoints to these pages.

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Viking
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Long Tan, Battle of, Vietnam, 1966
ISBN : 0670078271

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Battle of Long Tan The by David W. Cameron Pdf

"On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War. The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Company of 6RAR, originally numbering just 105 Australians and three New Zealanders, collided with Viet Cong forces numbering around 2500 troops, ahead of a planned Vietnamese ambush. Under heavy fire and short on ammunition, the Australians could only guess at the enemy's strength and number. Morning light revealed a shattered woodland, trees bleeding latex - and hundreds of dead enemy soldiers who had fallen in the numerous assaults against the small Anzac force. What was first thought by the Australians to be a significant defeat quickly turned out to be a major victory. Marking the battle's 50th anniversary, and drawing on unpublished first-hand accounts, David Cameron brings to life the events of this famous battle as it unfolded - minute by minute, hour by hour - and reveals the deeds of heroism and mateship now part of Australia's Vietnam War story. His compelling account commemorates the men who fought in the rubber plantation of Long Tan - and those who did not come home. Praise for David Cameron's The Battle for Lone Pine- 'A fine work of military and social history', Weekend Australian'A riveting read', Daily Telegraph"