Destroy and Build - Pacification in Phuoc Thuy, 196672

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Richardson is an Associate Lecturer in History, at the Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Klappentext Destroy and Build challenges the historiography of the Western forces' fight against insurgency in Vietnam. Zusammenfassung In this new work! Thomas Richardson explores the 1st Australian Task Force's (1ATF) implementation of pacification in Phuoc Tuy between 1966 and 1972. He argues that pacification! and Australian military history at large! remains a subject discussed only in the context of its impact on the Australian force rather than on its own merits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Pacification: an introduction; 2. Phuoc Tuy, 1966; 3. Preparing the battlefield; 4. Tet 1968; 5. 'This month's faire story'; 6. Déjà vu, all over again; 7. 'The wolves were circling'; 8. 'Bereft of their Australian strongmen'.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Richardson, Thomas (University of New South Wales Richardson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107189737
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18973-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Australian Army History Series; Australian Army History; Australian Army History; Australian Army History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, military history, Social & cultural history, Australasian & Pacific history, Vietnam War