A Nation at War: Australian Politics, Society and Diplomacy During the Vietnam War 1965-1975 (Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts, 1948-75)
By Peter Edwards.
Description
In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Australia was a nation at war in two senses. After the Menzies Government sent a battalion of troops to the Vietnam War in 1965, the involvement soon became Australia's largest military commitment apart from the two world wars. But in Australia this commitment created bitter divisions in Parliament, churches, universities, unions and families, until supporters and opponents fought in the streets of Australian cities. The Vietnam War, together with the selective form of national service which sent thousands of young conscripts to fight in Vietnam, ...
ISBN(s)
1864482826, 9781864482829
