Australia's Vietnam War / Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, and Peter Pierce
- Bib ID:
- 1568050
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2002
- xxiii, 218 p. : ill., 3 maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1585441376 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Series:
- Texas A & M University military history series ; 77.
- Summary:
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"Australia's Vietnam War shows the consequences of war in Australia. Through an evaluation of the literature arising from that experience, the manner in which their country memorialized its fallen veterans, and also other expressions of the war's influences, this book offers important insights into the healing process nations face following such conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Australia's Vietnam War
- 1. Some Reflections on the Australian Government's Commitment to the Vietnam War / Peter Edwards
- 2. The Australian Army and the Vietnam War / Ian McNeill and Jeffrey Grey
- 3. Protest and Dissent: Anti-Vietnam War Activism in Australia / Jeffrey Grey
- 4. "Never Glad Confident Morning Again": Australia, the Sixties, and the Vietnam War / Peter Pierce
- 5. Other Contingents: Australian Veterans beyond Vietnam / Jeff Doyle
- 6. Getting into the Books: Vietnam as History in Australia / Jeffrey Grey
- 7. Australian and American Literature of the Vietnam War / Peter Pierce
- 8. Reading and Building the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial / Jeff Doyle
- App. A Select Chronology of Australian Involvement in the Vietnam War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-210) and index.
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