The place--Three thousand years--The French--Ho and Giap--The Red menace--The two Vietnams--Viet Cong--Enter the Americans----First contacts--The quiet Australian--The team--The Montagnard chief--1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment--The Iron triangle--Cu Chi---- The Australian province--Nashos--To Nui Dat--The village--Long Tan- warnings--action--aftermath----All the way--with LBJ--Draft dodgers-- R & R--February 1967--The minefield--The hamlet without a soul--To January 1968----The Year of the monkey--The Tet offensive--Coral-- Balmoral--The air war--The press offensive--Body count--A politician' s war----WHAM--Australian Viet Cong--Accelerated pacification--Binh Ba--Vietnamisation----Homecoming--Morale--Moratorium--Platoon--Last days--'Baby-killers'----Endings--The North invades--The fall of Saigon--Cabramatta--Agents orange, purple, white, green, pink, blue--'Totally and permanently incapacitated'--Welcome home--Borne back ceaselessly into the past----Vietnam War Honour Roll--Units involved in Vietnam. "The participation by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam conflict (1962- 1975), including political background, accounts of battles and operations in Vietnam, soldiers' personal histories, and with reference to the anti- war movement."--Provided by publisher.

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