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Title: Surgery, Sand and Saigon Tea: An Australian Army Doctor in Viet Nam [Vietnam].
Description: Sydney Allen & Unwin, 2001. Paperback octavo, very good condition, maps, black & white text-photos, small scratch rear cover, minor edgewear. 252 pp. Autobiography of an Australian anaesthetist's service in the Vietnam War, based on his personal diary. An uncomprisingly honest about his time spent with the Australian Task Force at Nui Dat, with civilian teams at Long Nuyen and Bien Hoa, and with American units in Saigon and Tay Ninh. He was based at 8 Field Ambulance (later 1 Australian Field Hospital), and his work is graphically described - techniques of resuscitation, surgery and evacuation of the Australian wounded, and the arrival of the first Australian nurses. ISBN: 1865084638

Keywords: australian biography, autobiography, medicine, surgeons, military, asia, vietnam, vietnam war 1865084638

Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Bookhome Sydney
- Book number: 24965

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