The Battle of Long Tan
$26.61
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2017
Summary
Long Tan: Australia’s Vietnam War Ordeal
On the afternoon of August 18, 1966, in a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops faced one of their bloodiest and most significant battles of the Vietnam War.
Just four months after arriving at Nui Dat to secure the province, Delta Company of 6RAR, comprised of 105 Australians and three New Zealanders, encountered approximately 2500 Viet Cong troops preparing for an ambush.
Under relentless f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143786399 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143786393 |
| Author: | David W. Cameron |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 33mm |
About The Author
David W. Cameron
David W. Cameron received his PhD in biological anthropology in 1995 at the Australian National University and is a former Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney. He has conducted fieldwork in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is the author of several books on Australian military history and primate evolutionary biology and has published over 60 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals. He lives in Canberra.
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