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Gary McKay

With Healing Hands

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Early in the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese government appealed to the United States and its allies, including Australia, for desperately needed medical help. Most of the country's doctors had been conscripted into the army and the civilian population was facing a medical crisis.From October 1964 until the end of 1972 over 450 surgeons, nurses and other medical specialists from Australian hospitals volunteered to work in South Vietnam. In the towns of Long Xuyen, Bien Hoa, Vung Tau and Ba Ria they brought expert medical care, comfort and support to a war-weary and traumatised civilian population.The extraordinary story of the work of these… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-74176-101-6
  • EAN: 9781741761016
  • Produktnummer: 15867421
  • Verlag: Allen & Unwin
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'904 KB

Über den Autor


GARY McKAY served as a rifle platoon commander in South Vietnam where he was decorated for gallantry and severely wounded. He retired from the Army in 1998 and is now a full time non-fiction writer and freelance historian. ELIZABETH STEWART is an historian in the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial. She has worked on The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975, and developed the Vietnam section of the Memorial's new Conflicts 1945 to Today galleries.

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