Australia's Vietnam War.(Book review)

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Australia's Vietnam War. By Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, and Peter Pierce. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxiii, 218. $39.95. ISBN: 1-58544-137-6

Today's conflict in Iraq is being fought by soldiers from a number of nations besides the United States. This was equally true during the Vietnam conflict. One of those nations in both wars, Australia, has been an ally from the early dark days of World War Irs Southwest Pacific area of operations through the Cold War and combat in Korea. Vietnam exacted so ...

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