An Australian Experience: Words From The Vietnam Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
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At the crossroads of war, conscience, and national identity, An Australian Experience: Words from the Vietnam Years stands as a searing collection of commentary that captures Australia's turbulent relationship with the Vietnam War era. Allan Ashbolt — broadcaster, journalist, and one of Australia's most incisive social critics — chronicles the conflicts and crises that fractured Australian society during this defining period, confronting the reader with the realities of war, violence, racism, and the corrosive politics of patriotism. Ashbolt's work argues with unflinching clarity that Australia's involvement in Vietnam was not merely a military chapter but a mirror reflecting the deep contradictions at the heart of the nation's identity. His prose is sharp, polemical, and deeply humane, drawing on his experience as an ABC journalist to present a wide-ranging commentary that bridges reportage and cultural critique. A vital document of Australian dissent, this collection leaves the reader asking a question as urgent today as it was then: what does it truly mean to be Australian in the shadow of empire?
Author: Allan Ashbolt
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of war, conscience, and national identity, An Australian Experience: Words from the Vietnam Years stands as a searing collection of commentary that captures Australia's turbulent relationship with the Vietnam War era. Allan Ashbolt — broadcaster, journalist, and one of Australia's most incisive social critics — chronicles the conflicts and crises that fractured Australian society during this defining period, confronting the reader with the realities of war, violence, racism, and the corrosive politics of patriotism. Ashbolt's work argues with unflinching clarity that Australia's involvement in Vietnam was not merely a military chapter but a mirror reflecting the deep contradictions at the heart of the nation's identity. His prose is sharp, polemical, and deeply humane, drawing on his experience as an ABC journalist to present a wide-ranging commentary that bridges reportage and cultural critique. A vital document of Australian dissent, this collection leaves the reader asking a question as urgent today as it was then: what does it truly mean to be Australian in the shadow of empire?