TY  - BOOK
AU  - HAM Paul
TI  - Vietnam: the Australian war
SN  - 9780732282370 (hbk) :
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - VIETNAM WAR
KW  - PARTICIPATION
KW  - AUSTRALIA
KW  - POLITICS
N2  - A good single volume history of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War making extensive use of first hand reports and experiences. Provides a general history of Vietnam, covers the evolving economic and strategic context that faced Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, describes why and how Australia became involved in Vietnam, the course of Australia's war, the initial enthusiasm on the home front then the growing anti-war movement, and the political dimensions of getting into then getting out of the war
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