Vietnam The Australian War eBook Paul Ham
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For the first time this is the full story of Australia's involvement in our longest military campaign 'Surely God weeps,' an Australian soldier wrote in despair of the conflict in Vietnam. But no God intervened to shorten the years of carnage and devastation in this most controversial of wars. the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation, visiting terrible harm on both civilians and soldiers.Yet the Australian experience was very different from that of the Americans. Guided by their commanders' knowledge of jungle combat, Australian troops operated with stealth, deception and restraint to pursue a 'better war'. In reconstructing for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign, Paul Ham draws on hundreds of accounts by soldiers, politicians, aid workers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people. From the commitment to engage, through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti-war movement, to the tactics and horror of the battlefield, Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war - which sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women. More than 500 Australian soldiers were killed and thousands wounded. those who made it home returned to a hostile and ignorant country and a reception that scarred them forever. this is their story.
Vietnam The Australian War eBook Paul Ham
I rate this as the best book I have read on the Vietnam war from an Australian perspective. It is a comprehensive and well-balanced account of the war and Australia's involvement.A well researched, well written book that examines every aspect of the war and the global political environment that existed at that time.
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Vietnam The Australian War eBook Paul Ham Reviews
Paul Ham placed Australia's involvement in its proper perspective. I now understand what happened and why.
An excellent resource for Australians interested in the Vietnam War but would also be of interest for anyone else as it contains very informative backgound on the history and politics of Vietnam. The author somtimes appears to have his opinion come out which is not all that complimentary to the Americans. I enjoyed it but found it tough work at times.
Paul Ham is a masterful historian who delivers all the facts about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war in an engaging and interesting way.
I found this book very interesting and the authors did a good job and very readable. If you want to read about the Vietnam war from a different perspective i recommend this book.
Fascinating book, well written, facts about the Viet Nam war I never knew!!
This is the first book I have read on the Vietnam war that starts out with a brief history of the country. I also enjoyed the political analysis in addition to the history. The book is well worth reading for any history buff, and gives me as an American a look at the war from down under, so to speak.
The history of Australia's Vietnam war is comprehensively put together and explained well. Where I parted company was with the author's convoluted attempts to justify the war from a South Vietnamese point of view. I accept that there are no absolutes in this, and I accept that the North was not lily white. But the repeated statement that 320,000 Chinese troops laboured behind the front to free up North Vietnamese troops, and that this was an unfair advantage, I thought lacked logic. Consider that 550,000 American and other forces actually fought for the South and provided a huge amount of modern firepower as well. I figure this more than counterbalances the 320,000 Chinese non-combatants..
I rate this as the best book I have read on the Vietnam war from an Australian perspective. It is a comprehensive and well-balanced account of the war and Australia's involvement.
A well researched, well written book that examines every aspect of the war and the global political environment that existed at that time.
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