Bibliograph

The Nashos' war, Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam, Mark Dapin

Type

Label

The Nashos' war, Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam, Mark Dapin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Nashos' war

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mark Dapin

Sub title

Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

Summary

More than sixty-three thousand young Australians were drafted into national service during the Vietnam War. The 'nashos' were chosen by chance, when their birthdates were drawn from a lottery barrel. Not all of them ended up in Vietnam, but their random fate came to symbolise the war, and divide a nation. Drawing on interviews with more than one hundred and fifty former nashos, and their wartime diaries and letters, author and journalist Mark Dapin tells the full story of national service in Australia for the first time

Target audience

adult

Classification