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Title The Australian experience of war / illustrated stories & verse selected by John Laird
Published Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : Mead & Beckett, 1988

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 MELB  827.0080358 L1883/A  DUE 03-04-24
Description 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary "Weary" Dunlop - A.B. Facey - Mary Gilmore - Kenneth Harrison - David Malouf - Jessie Simons - The Vietnam War including poetry and eyewitness accounts of search and destroy missions, napalm and the Battle of Long Tan - My Lai - Search & destroy in a Viet Cong Village - Mines & Booby traps in Vietnam - Australia in the Second World War - The Home Front
Analysis Australian literature
War - Literary collections
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 322-326
Subject Australian literature.
Soldiers -- Australia -- Literary collections.
Soldiers' writings, Australian.
War in literature.
War poetry, Australian.
War stories, Australian.
War -- Literary collections.
Genre/Form Literature.
Author Laird, J. T. (John Tudor)
LC no. 89212093
ISBN 0949698326