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“bruce davies”

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  • Vietnam

    The complete story of the Australian war

    by Bruce Davies, Gary McKay ...
    Take a journey back to the front line with two Australian veterans as they retrace the footsteps of soldiers and politicians, villagers and the enemy in a meticulously researched new history of the Vietnam War.For Australians, Vietnam remains one of most difficult - and controversial - wars we have fought. On the fiftieth anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete ... Read more

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  • The Battle at Ngok Tavak

    A bloody defeat in South Vietnam, 1968

    by Bruce Davies ...
    In 1968, in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos, a Special Forces Company, under the command of an Australian Army Captain, supported by a Marine artillery detachment, occupied an old French fort, on a hill known as Ngok Tavak.The circumstances of the battle that ensued, and the subsequent retreat from Ngok Tavak, left in their wake issues that cried out for resolution for decades after the ... Read more

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  • Obituaries of Notable Indians

    by Bruce Davies ...
    Obituaries of Notable Indians is a collection of four short biographies of Tillie Walker, Chuck Trimble, Hank Adams and Alan Parker. Native America experienced dramatic changes between 1960 and 2000 and these four leaders were key architects of the ideas that created twenty first century American Indian politics and society. The author had the fortune of working with these leaders and blends ... Read more

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  • A Meaningful Right to Fish Part Two

    by Bruce Davies ...
    In 1970 a complaint was filed in federal court to clarify the right to fish that tribes had reserved in the Stevens Treaties. The case became United States v. Washington and has been in litigation ever since. Hundreds of sub-proceedings have been decided, dozens of appeals have been heard and the Supreme Court has considered the case twice. Part One covers the period from treaty times to 1979 when ... Read more

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  • A Meaningful Right to Fish Part One

    by Bruce Davies ...
    In 1970 a complaint was filed in federal court to clarify the right to fish that tribes had reserved in the Stevens Treaties. The case became United States v. Washington and has been in litigation ever since. Hundreds of sub-proceedings have been decided, dozens of appeals have been heard and the Supreme Court has considered the case twice. Part One covers the period from treaty times to 1979 when ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Modern Rugby

    Edited by Bruce Davies, Julien Baker ...
    The modern game of rugby football has become gladiatorial, whereby muscular athletic players are involved in a form of collision chess with sophisticated defences smothering the offensive skills that were at one time a more dominant feature of the game.The contributors to this book consider the physical, mental and nutritional demands of the game in its present form and how best to acquire these ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Men Who Persevered

    The AATTV - the most highly decorated Australian unit of the Viet Name war

    by Bruce Davies, Gary McKay ...
    The first Australians committed to serve in Viet Nam were a group of military instructors known as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. Their initial role: to assist in the training of the ground forces of South Viet Nam. But battalion battles and artillery duels, the relief of besieged camps, and mobile strike forces became part of the mosaic that saw this curiously named unit forge a ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Long Tan

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    The truth about the battle that came to define our Vietnam War - from the men who were there.18th August, 1966. 1pm…D Company entered the plantation. They thought that, if they were lucky, they were closing in on perhaps 30 or 40 VC. They were horribly wrong.Over twelve long, bloody and brutal hours, 105 Australian soldiers and three New Zealanders fought off mortar attacks and heavy machine-gun ... Read more

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  • The Tiger Man of Vietnam

    by Frank Walker ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited. Aged 28, highly trained, with experience in anti-communist guerilla warfare, he was about to embark on the ... Read more

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  • Australia and the Vietnam War

    by Peter Edwards ...
    In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skillfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonization in Southeast Asia, and Australian domestic politics. The Vietnam War was Australia's longest and most controversial military commitment of the 20th century, ending in humiliation for the United States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam. The war ... Read more

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  • Vietnam: The Australian War

    by Paul Ham ...
    For the first time this is the full story of Australia's involvement in our longest military campaign'Surely God weeps,' an Australian soldier wrote in despair of the conflict in Vietnam. But no God intervened to shorten the years of carnage and devastation in this most controversial of wars. the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating ... Read more

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