Australia S Vietnam

Author : Albert Palazzo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Anh Nguyen Austen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000652932

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Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora by Anh Nguyen Austen Pdf

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora. As war and displacement compounds the need for creating communities and histories for cultural continuity, this book is a history about childhood and migration for the Vietnamese diaspora of refugees, adoptees, and second generation in Australia and their connectedness to a global and digital diaspora. Using Facebook as a digital archive for historical research, Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora presents new methods for the study of what Nguyen Austen proposes as a new area of digital diaspora studies for interdisciplinary research about real and digital life in the humanities and social sciences. As a contemporary digital diaspora study of Vietnamese forced child migrants from 1975 to the present, this book contains a mixed-methods historical analysis of the impact of war and displacement on memories of childhood. This book presents an innovative history of the national, transnational, digital, and contemporaneous lives of Vietnamese child migrants, which will make a significant contribution to the discourse on transnational childhood, migration, and belonging for refugees and migrants in the twenty-first century.

Author : Peter (Fullarton) Edwards
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Greg Lockhart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741761924

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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 : John Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Jeff Doyle,Jeffrey Grey,Peter Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Greg Lockhart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Gregory Pemberton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1742579450

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Vietnam Remembered by Gregory Pemberton Pdf

This book makes the first real assessment of what the Vietnam War meant, on the battlefields and in Australia. When the first Australian troops landed on Vietnamese soil, the significance of the conflict was scarcely realised - but in time it was to affect not only tens of thousands of Australians who served in Vietnam, but an extraordinary cross-section of people at home. Debate about the war continues two decades later - and this book provides the vital answers about how Australia got involved in Americarsquo;s war; what happened to our troops in Vietnam; the way protest against the war built up on the home front; how the lsquo;Vietnam erarsquo; - the sixties and early seventies - impinged on Australian attitudes; how Australia received its Vietnam veterans on their return. It also looks at our countryrsquo;s relationship with the Vietnamese, now that many live in Australia. A top team of experts show in this book that the Vietnam War had far-reaching effects on Australiarsquo;s foreign policy, national politics, and social attitudes. Some of the controversies it provoked have spread beyond the years 1965-1971, when Australia was directly involved. This thorough, fascinating account tells the whole story of the Vietnam conflict, abroad and in Australia. It contains the Roll of Honour of those who died as a result of the Vietnam War; and it ends with a fourth edition of the lists of those who served in Vietnam.

Author : Frank Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0043550258

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Australia's War in Vietnam by Frank Frost Pdf

Author : Terry O'Farrell
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781741151503

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Behind Enemy Lines by Terry O'Farrell Pdf

This personal account of Terry O'Farrell's career as an SAS soldier vividly captures not only the military actions of his time in Vietnam, but the human aspects of surviving the intense selection process and training to dealing with the ever-present fear of combat. The horrors of long tense stretches on patrol in the jungle and being caught by surprise by the enemy are recounted. Also included are colorful tales of experiences off the battlefied--the larrakin pranks during training and the friendships that form between soldiers.

Author : David Millie
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813143279

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Team 19 in Vietnam by David Millie Pdf

An Australian Army veteran offers a rare glimpse into the multi-national operations of the Vietnam War in this vivid and thoroughly researched memoir. In Team 19 in Vietnam, David Millie offers an insightful account of his twelve-month tour with the renowned Australian Army Training Team Vietnam in Quang Tri Province—a crucial tactical site along the demilitarized zone that was North Vietnam's gateway to the south. This firsthand narrative vividly demonstrates the importance of the region and the substantial number of forces engaged there. Drawing from published and unpublished military documents, his personal diary, and the letters he wrote while deployed, Millie introduces readers to the daily routines, actions, and disappointments of a field staff officer. Millie also discusses his interactions with province senior advisor Colonel Harley F. Mooney and Major John Shalikashvili, who would later become chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Few Australian accounts of the Vietnam War exist, and Millie offers a fresh perspective on the year after the Tet offensive. He contends that responsibility for the catastrophe inflicted on Vietnamese civilians is shared by an international community that failed to act effectively in the face of a crisis.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063985568

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Kim Huynh
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780730450122

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Where The Sea Takes Us by Kim Huynh Pdf

A family's sacrifice - A nation's struggle A family's sacrifice ... A nation's struggle In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families set out on perilous journeys in rickety boats to escape communist rule and seek out a better life. Kim Huynh's family was one of them. In this unique memoir, Kim traces his parents' precarious lives, from their poor villages in central and southern Vietnam, through relative affluence in Saigon, to their harrowing experiences after the American withdrawal and the fall of Saigon in 1975, which led them to a new life in Australia. As Kim explores his parents' stories, he unveils the tragedy and inner strength of ordinary Vietnamese people struggling to survive in a country beset by colonisation and ravaged by war. this gripping story is not only an invaluable piece of political history, but a moving tribute from a son to his parents. For fans of Ahn Do's 'the Happiest Refugee' and Pauline Nguyen's 'Secrets of the Red Lantern'. All royalties from sales of this book are donated to Medecins Sans Frontières Australia.

Author : Bruce Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 1921941995

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Canister on Fire by Bruce Cameron Pdf

Canister! On! Fire! tells the remarkable, but little known story of Australian tanks in the Vietnam War. Based on twelve years of research, including personal letters and diaries, extensive searches of official records and numerous interviews, this book brings to life a previously little-known aspect of the conflict. It is the story of a select group of soldiers, both regular and conscript, serving their country against all odds. The 53- tonne Centurion tanks were not only involved in intense fighting in conjunction with infantry to capture enemy defences and defeat attacks, but also fought their own battles against enemy mines, ambushes, and an unforgiving terrain and climate. This book takes the reader inside the tanks to share the experiences of their crews in action in the jungle. We see the gunner, trying to survive the heat inside the turret, while identifying designated targets; the operator trying to maintain communications, while keeping the guns loaded; the driver, trying to see his way forward, while keeping his head down; and the commander, trying to locate enemy positions, while directing his driver and giving fire orders to his gunner. The account also reveals how the mechanics beat overwhelming challenges to maintain the twenty-year-old tanks, while the field engineers risked their lives protecting them against mines. (hbk.).

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : MINN:31951D008643952

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Situation in Vietnam by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs Pdf

Investigates allegations by reporter Albert M. Colegrove in Washington Daily News that International Cooperation Administration mismanaged its Vietnam aid programs.