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Big Sky Publishing, 2015. Softcover. FINE!. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY VIETNAMOn the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company of 108 men held its ground with courage and grim determination against a three sided attack from a force of 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops.When the battle subsided, 17 Australian soldiers lay dead, 24 had been wounded of which one died 9 days later. Battlefield clearance revealed 245 enemy bodies with captured documents later confirming the count at over 500 enemy killed and 800 wounded.These men were led by a gruff and gusty perfectionist, Major Harry Smith. Now, some 47 years after the battle, Harry tells his story for the first time. But this book is more than just an account of a historic battle. Harry Smith…
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Long Tan: The Start of a Lifelong Battle Paperback - 2015
by Harry Smith
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- Title Long Tan: The Start of a Lifelong Battle
- Author Harry Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Big Sky Publishing, Sydney
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9781922132321 / 1922132322
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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