| ISBN |
9781760113544 (paperback) |
| 1760113549 |
| Name |
Thomson, Jimmy author. |
| Title |
Tunnel rats vs the Taliban : how Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror / Jimmy Thomson & Sandy MacGregor. |
| Published |
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2015. |
| ©2015. |
| Description |
269 pages, 8 pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
The year 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the original Australian Tunnel Rats arrival in Vietnam, and one year after our troops were withdrawn from active duty in Afghanistan. Although on the face of it these two conflicts, separated by half a century, could scarcely be more different, for Sappers - army engineers - it has been very familiar territory. |
| History |
Jimmy Thomson is a journalist, author and screenwriter whose credits include the ABC-TV series Rain Shadow. He is the author of Snitch, Tunnel Rats, A Sappers War and Watto. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, as a young captain Sandy MacGregor commanded 3 Field Troop in Vietnam, where he won the Military Cross. He served in the Army for 30 years, finishing as a colonel in the Reserves... |
| Subjects |
Taliban |
| Afghan War, 2001- -- Participation, Australian |
| Sapping -- History. |
| Afghan War, 2001- -- Engineering and construction. |
| Military engineering -- Afghanistan. |
| Military engineers -- Australia |
| Other Names |
MacGregor, Sandy, 1940- author. |
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