Tunnel rats vs the Taliban : how Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror / Jimmy Thomson & S...
Tunnel rats vs the Taliban : how Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror / Jimmy Thomson & S...
Tunnel rats vs the Taliban : how Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror / Jimmy Thomson & Sandy MacGregor.
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Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin, 2015.
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H 2015/2893 , G 2015/2518
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin, 2015.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban...This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the war in Vietnam. These...
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Tunnel rats vs the Taliban : how Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror / Jimmy Thomson & Sandy MacGregor.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Biographical note
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 Arm...
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H 2015/2893 , G 2015/2518
Record Identifier
74VK7NyEaojO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7NyEaojO
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ISBN
9781760113544
DDC
958.1047
MMS ID
991022886119702626
