Australia and the Crises in Laos, 1959-61
Author : Peter Geoffrey Edwards
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
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Author : Peter Geoffrey Edwards
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
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Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Peter (Fullarton) Edwards
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1742241670
The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the twentieth century, ending in humiliation for the United States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam. The war provoked deep divisions in Australian society and politics, particularly since for the first time young men were conscripted for overseas service in a highly contentious ballot system. The Vietnam era is still identified with diplomatic, military and political failure. Was Vietnam a case of Australia fighting ‘other people’s wars’? Were we really ‘all the way’ with the United States? How valid was the ‘domino theory’? Did the Australian forces develop new tactical methods in earlier Southeast Asian conflicts, and just how successful were they against the unyielding enemy in Vietnam? In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skilfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonisation in Southeast Asia and Australian domestic politics to provide new, often surprising, answers to these questions.
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Page : 976 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Asia
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Page : 686 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Infantry
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Strategy
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Author : Desmond Ball
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Aerospace industries
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Author : Jim Sanday
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiji
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Author : Greg Mills
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : South Africa
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Author : Andrew Selth
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
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