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The story of the 1969 tour of Vietnam by the Eighth Battalion of the Australian army.
List of contents
Maps, figures and tablesIllustrationsTerms and abbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Getting ready: 8RAR's genesis and makeup2 A hostile environment ...3 8RAR operations: finding the way to pacification4 The life of the infantryman5 Patterns in combat6 Three fire fights: life on the two-way range7 The waiting killers8 Friendly fire9 The enemy within10 Forces of cohesion and disintegration11 Discipline12 Tour's endNotesSources and bibliographyIndex
About the author
Robert Hall joined the Australian Army in 1965 and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1968. He served with 8RAR in Malaysia and Vietnam. He left the army in 1991 and is now the Centre Manager of the Australian Defence Studies Centre at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War and Fighters From The Fringe: Aborigines and Islanders Recall the Second World War.
