AUSTRALIAN MILITARY
Fresh-faced 25-year-old Hugh Lunn arrives in Vietnam at the height of the war to cover it for Reuters and quickly meets a fascinating cast of characters: journalists, Vietnamese, military and best of all, Dinh, the Vietnamese reporter and guide who spoke his own brand of English (Dinglish) and whose wisdom and humour become inextricably bound up with the young reporter’s view of the war. Before long the author experiences the full horror and tragedy of war, and finds himself questioning not only the US/Australian role in Vietnam, but his own role in a war where images and words could be as powerful as bullets. A powerful and humane account of a bloody and tragic conflict, from Walkley award-winning journalist Hugh Lunn, xx, 313 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 21 cm. #311222 Originally published: St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1985. (Light age tanning)
Lunn, Hugh, 1941- | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Personal narratives, Australian. | Vietnam — History — 20th century.