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The Listening Watch: Memories of Viet Nam

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This is a book about war for people who do not read war books. It is the story of Australian veterans who served in Viet Nam. This was not a popular war; nor perhaps even a winnable one. But 50,000 Australians volunteered or were conscripted to serve beside the American and South Vietnamese armies.

This book listens to neglected voices from that war. Most of all, it discovers the story of Len Hall, a West Australian who served in Viet Nam 1969 to 1970. When he returned, he was a different person. Many years later he realised he had been traumatised. What is like to suffer from war trauma? How do wives and families cope with this? The Listening Watch discovers how war can affect the families of veterans – how modern conflicts can reach far beyond their time and place. As our young men and women continue to serve in foreign wars, what lessons can we really learn from Viet Nam?

This book is also a study of the silence which surrounds the memories of war; the painful gaps in understanding; the empty spaces war leaves behind.

Language: English

Pages: 146

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: February 21, 2013

The Listening Watch: Memories of Viet Nam

0/5 ( ratings)

This is a book about war for people who do not read war books. It is the story of Australian veterans who served in Viet Nam. This was not a popular war; nor perhaps even a winnable one. But 50,000 Australians volunteered or were conscripted to serve beside the American and South Vietnamese armies.

This book listens to neglected voices from that war. Most of all, it discovers the story of Len Hall, a West Australian who served in Viet Nam 1969 to 1970. When he returned, he was a different person. Many years later he realised he had been traumatised. What is like to suffer from war trauma? How do wives and families cope with this? The Listening Watch discovers how war can affect the families of veterans – how modern conflicts can reach far beyond their time and place. As our young men and women continue to serve in foreign wars, what lessons can we really learn from Viet Nam?

This book is also a study of the silence which surrounds the memories of war; the painful gaps in understanding; the empty spaces war leaves behind.

Language: English

Pages: 146

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: February 21, 2013

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