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While those books all provide excellent analyses of the war, another way to u. Halberstam sets out to discover how the united states got involved in vietnam. When the japanese invaded during world war ii, the viet minh opposed. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre. Paul hams vietnam the australian war is an excellent read.

There were many key reasons for australias involvement in the vietnam war. Australias involvement in vietnam was driven by a fear of communist expansion in asia and the governments desire to align itself with the united states. By telling the story of their training as cadets, their years in vietnam, and what they experienced when they returned for. Revised and updated over the years, americas longest war is used in many college. Discover the best vietnam war history in best sellers. Winner of the 2016 pulitzer prize for fiction, this debut novel could fit into half a dozen genres of vietnam war books from war narrative to immigrant story, from mystery to political, from metafiction to historical and even dark comedy. The ten best memoirs of the vietnam war council on foreign. Following the end of the second world war the french had sought to reassert control over french indochina, which had been occupied by japan. Australian vietnam war book, many of these war books cover the major australian vietnam battles of long tan, coral and balmoral, tet offensive, australian army vietnam battle war history books. A history of the vietnam war era and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Australian soldiers hold a ceremony to honour a fallen colleague, 1965. The vietnam war also known as the second indochina war, and in vietnam as the resistance.

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The vietnam war was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of north vietnam against south vietnam and its principal ally, the united states. The top 30 vietnam war books to read this winter historynet. Why did australia become involved in the vietnam war essay. Australias involvement in the vietnam war was driven largely by the rise of communism in southeast asia after the second world war, and the fear of its spread which developed in australia during the 1950s and early 1960s. These include winners of national book awards and pulitzer prizes, both fiction and nonfiction. The australian government committed troops to the vietnam war in 1965. The book has been painstakingly researched, and attempts to present a balanced view of the war from the points of view of the soldiers, officers, politicians, and families of those involved on both sides, as well as those in australia who grew to detest everything the vietnam war stood for, and in the process condemned the. The vietnam war which went from 1965 to 1975 involved america and its allies, including australia, aiming to prevent south vietnam from an invasion by the communist north vietnaese. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war. Military history of australia during the vietnam war. The vietnam war stands as one of the pivotal moments in recent u.