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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Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
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H 2016/2273
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English
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Physical content
xv, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Maps of Afghanistan and Uruzgan province..List of abbreviations and acronyms..Foreword by Major General John Cantwell AO, DSC (Ret'd)..Prologue: The Tunnel Rat legacy..Introduction: Sappers in Afghanistan..1: Operation Salaam..2: The rise of the Taliban..3: Hunting bin Laden..4: Follow the sapper..5...
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Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2016.
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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 T...
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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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©2015.
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H 2016/2273
Record Identifier
74VKVP4gyL23
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVP4gyL23
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ISBN
1760294160
9781760294168
DDC
958.1047
MMS ID
991023996014902626
