| Contents: | The place--Three thousand years--The French--Ho and Giap--The Red menace--The two Vietnams--Viet Cong--Enter the Americans----First contacts--The quiet Australian--The team--The Montagnard chief--1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment--The Iron triangle--Cu Chi----The Australian province--Nashos--To Nui Dat--The village--Long Tan-warnings--action--aftermath----All the way--with LBJ--Draft dodgers--R & R--February 1967--The minefield--The hamlet without a soul--To January 1968----The Year of the monkey--The Tet offensive--Coral--Balmoral--The air war--The press offensive--Body count--A politician's war----WHAM--Australian Viet Cong--Accelerated pacification--Binh Ba--Vietnamisation----Homecoming--Morale--Moratorium--Platoon--Last days--'Baby-killers'----Endings--The North invades--The fall of Saigon--Cabramatta--Agents orange, purple, white, green, pink, blue--'Totally and permanently incapacitated'--Welcome home--Borne back ceaselessly into the past----Vietnam War Honour Roll--Units involved in Vietnam.
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