Product Description

In the 1960s, the CIA and the Pentagon invited Ted Serong, an Australian soldier, to advise them on the conduct of the war in Vietnam. This is his story of that war and how he turned a relatively minor assingment into the development of a programme for the war against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. An adviser to Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Kissinger and presidents of South Vietnam, Ted Serong attended a multitude of secret planning meetings in Washington and Saigon. Throughout all of this, he kept a personal diary which he updated daily, even during the final helicopter evacuation from the roof of the American embassy. This book is based on that diary and the accounts of many of the Australians, Americans and South Vietnamese who Serong worked and fought with.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2254339 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages

About the Author
Anne Blair is a research associate with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, where she teaches in several Open Learning programs. After her study of the overthrow of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem by U.S. President Kennedy and his ambassador to Vietnam, she embarked on the present longer study of the war, through the experiences of Australia's world leader in counter-insurgency, Brigadier 'Ted' Serong.