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All Day Long the Noise of Battle by Gerard Windsor
In 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a Vietnamese bunker complex in a three-day battle. Yet it passed unacknowledged in Australia, and the men were insulted by command's failure to recognise their courage. Gerard Windsor's All Day Long the Noise of Battle looks at the men's strengths and weaknesses, their alliances and tensions, their morale, their reactions to combat, their stand-out characters and their leaders. And throughout, the book becomes an essay on the nature of men's memory of battle. Windsor brings a fiction writer's eye to this tragic episode. Full of memorable personalities, Windsor's book is seminal and moving.
ISBN: 9781741969184 ISBN-10: 1741969182 Classification: Vietnam War , Battles & campaigns Format: Paperback (234mm x 153mm x mm) Pages: 256 Imprint: Pier 9 Publisher: Murdoch Books Publish Date: 1-Apr-2011 Country of Publication: Australia |
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Book Review: All Day Long the Noise of Battle by Gerard Windsor - Reviewed by RossH (11 Jul 2011) In writing any history, the immediate issue facing the research/author is that of information sources. At first glance, this may seem a relatively straight forward thing in this instance when many of the participants are still alive and may be consulted along with official records. What Gerard Windsor amply demonstrates here is that this is anything but straight forward. The problem of memory is a real inhibitor – different accounts because of different memories of specific events even comes into play with accounts written very shortly after the event, let alone some forty years later. Despite this issue of conflicting accounts and memories, Windsor has compiled a detailed and very interesting account of the actions of the men from C Company, Seventh Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) in Operation Coburg. Australian ‘memory’ of the fighting in the Tet Offensive in 1968 is heavily influenced by US sources such as film. Yet Australian... » Read all 1 book reviews for All Day Long the Noise of Battle by Gerard Windsor Gerard Windsor is one of Australia's most versatile and respected writers. His publications have included two novels, three collections of short stories and essays and three volumes of memoir. His most recent books have been the novel I Have Kissed Your Lips and a set of fifty comic biographies of famous Australians, Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie. He won the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in 2005, has appeared in either The Best Australian Short Stories or The Best Australian Essays most years since the series' inception in 1998, and is represented by his fiction in the Norton Anthology of Australian Literature. All Day Long the Noise of Battle is his first published work of history. He lives in Sydney. |
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