The minefield : an Australian tragedy in Vietnam / Greg Lockhart
- Bib ID:
- 3794859
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lockhart, Greg, 1947-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2007
- xxv, 306 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781741141061
- Summary:
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This is a history of the Australian minefield that played havoc with Australia's military operations in Vietnam and constituted the greatest tactical blunder in Australian military history since World War II.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Maps, figures and tables x
- Abbreviations xii
- Preface and acknowledgments xiv
- Introduction xvii
- 1 Barrier reef 1
- 2 Barrier base 16
- 3 Barrier minefield 36
- 4 Graham's plan 44
- 5 , Orders for Operation Leeton 62
- 6 Building the fence and laying the mines 71
- 7 Stealing the mines and defending Long Dat 93
- 8 Operation Pinaroo 108
- 9 The promotion 128
- 10 The battle for 'the box' I 139
- 11 The battle for 'the box' II 151
- 12 The great official silence 171
- 13 Dante's inferno 184
- 14 Black Saturday and beyond 203
- 15 Misreading Phuoc Tuy to the finish 217
- 16 Conclusion 236
- Epilogue 244
- Appendix I: Ministerial Press Release 4904 of 16 June 1967 253
- Appendix II: The Vietnam Database by Hugh Conant 255
- Notes 261
- Bibliography 289.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 261-296.
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