Leon Davidson
Autore di Zero hour: the Anzacs on the Western Front
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THE WAR ROOM (1)
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Nothing could have prepared Australian and New Zealand soldiers for the environment in which they asked to fight. The dust, mud, rain, leeches, mosquitoes, snakes and an intractable foe were all part of the soldiers lives and described by the writing that also brings out the brutality and compassion and the confusion and violence that accompanies war.
The Vietnam conflict was a complicated affair. There were many who people believed that if communism was allowed to spread in Vietnam that it would eventually 'infect' countries all the way to Australia and New Zealand. Others believed that Australia and New Zealand should never have become involved in the fighting. While various political battles were waged at home, soldiers fought in the hostile environment. Red Haze tracks the war from the political impetus of its beginning, through many of the well-known and less well-known battles, to the 1973 ceasefire.
The author tries to take a balanced viewpoint although much might still be regarded as contentious even today.… (altro)