Gunners in Borneo 1962 - 1966: Artillery During Confrontation.

Sydney, Manly: Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company, 2008. Hardback large octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white text-photos, maps, diagrams, frontispiece, black & white photo front endpaper, map rear endpaper, few tiny bumps fore-edge. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 184 pp. Alan Smith records the story of the Confrontation of Indonesia with Malaysia in Borneo in the 1960s. The author has given an artillery perspective to operations that were mainly infantry, artillery and tactical air deployment of persons and supplies. The book covers command and control from General to gunner, the nuts and bolts of operations, aspects of Security Forces modus operandum from an intelligence, tactical, logistic and administrative point of view, including the involvement of other essential services, from cartographers to sailors and airmen, and other resources, human and material, needed in war time. The book includes the experiences of individuals, soldiering in some of the most inhospitable climate and terrain on earth. There is a selected Chronology of the Campaign, Glossary, Appendices, Nominal Roll of 102 Battery, Bibliography, and a Biography of Major B C Forward: A Military Intellect (1929 - 1975).