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A Twist in the POGO's Tale
Derek Vincent Smith
其他書名
An Army Clerk's Passage from Childhood to War in Vietnam
出版Bruce C. Gibson-Wilde, 2016-07
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN09945591009780994559104
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uWwBkAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A Twist in the POGO's Tale is a very detailed personal account of one man's journey and experience in building a life and a profession in the Army through the transformative decades after the World War II. The author has provided an insight into what it was like for a young Queensland man to be swept up in the Australian coming of age entailed in closer engagement with Asia, after the Western ascendancy ended in the decade following the surrender of Japan in 1945.The new Australian Army of the Sixties and the Seventies engaged in a form of warfare that was very different to that experienced by earlier generations. Nothing was straightfor-ward and everything was complex.POGOs, like the author, could no longer be considered to be separate from the battle and had to be trained and ready to take their part in the action. That is part of the twist in this story. The other part is the sympathetic con-nection with Vietnam that followed for many veterans of the War and is very much a part of this POGO's Tale.