| Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam: Words from the Battlefield Contributor(s): Karageorgos, Effie (Author), Black, Jeremy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472585801 ISBN-13: 9781472585806 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa |
| Dewey: 968.048 |
| LCCN: 2015030761 |
| Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Military History |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.21 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldiers written while on the South African and Vietnam battlefields reveal that their reactions to the war they were fighting were surprisingly unlike those on the home fronts from which they came. Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam follows these combat men from enlistment to the war front and analyses their words alongside theories of soldiering to demonstrate the transformation of soldiers as a response to developments in military procedure, as well as changing civilian opinion. In this way, the book illustrates the strength of a soldier's link to their home front lives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Black, Jeremy: - Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA. |