D. M. Horner
Auteur van The Second World War, Volume 1: The Pacific
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Werken van D. M. Horner
High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine Thru Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five (1982) 9 exemplaren
Australia and the New World Order: From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: 1988-1991 (Official History of Australian… (2011) 7 exemplaren
Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars (Australian Army History) (2005) 6 exemplaren
Defence supremo : Sir Frederick Shedden and the making of Australian defence policy (2000) 4 exemplaren
Making the Australian Defence Force :The Australian Centenary History of Defence: Volume 4: (2001) 4 exemplaren
Strategy and Command: Issues in Australia's Twentieth-century Wars (Australian Army History Series) (2021) 3 exemplaren
The Good International Citizen: Australian Peacekeeping in Asia, Africa and Europe 1991-1993 (Official History of… (2014) 2 exemplaren
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However, if you bear with the book through the more tedious parts, or just skim or skip them altogether, you will find some truly fascinating stories of combat operations in Borneo, Malaysia, South Vietnam and East Timor. The author interviewed many active service and retired members of the regiment and as a result the stories of the patrols in these theaters of war are written at the level of the experience of the individual soldier. Combat operations almost always consisted of patrols of no more than four or five men, staying on ops for days at a time, moving in silence for hours. The narrative of the combat patrols have that "you are there" feel to them and will be appreciated by those who wish to understand how these special forces types worked in ways so different than traditional infantry.… (meer)