All Day Long The Noise Of Battle. An Australian Attack In Vietnam

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Murdoch Books Australia
Publisher Place: Millers Point
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 255 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "In 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a Vietnamese bunker complex in a three-day battle. Yet it passed unacknowledged in Australia, and the men were insulted by commands failure to recognise their courage. Gerard Windsors All Day Long the Noise of Battle looks at the mens strengths and weaknesses, their alliances and tensions, their morale, their reactions to combat, their stand-out characters and their leaders. And throughout, the book becomes an essay on the nature of mens memory of battle. Windsor brings a fiction writers eye to this tragic episode. Full of memorable personalities Windsors book is seminal and moving."

ISBN: 9781741969184