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Australian Books

A noble cause

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

Australia and the Vietnam War Peter Edwards

New South, pp.304, $49.99, ISBN: 9781742232744

I supported Australia’s Vietnam commitment in the decade between 1965 (when the Menzies Coalition government deployed combat forces to South Vietnam) and 1975 (when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army). As a university student and later an academic during this period, this was a distinctly unfashionable position to hold.

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Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute and a columnist at the Weekend Australian.

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