HO CHI MINH, JOHNSY AND I
Book Details
Author(s)Tony Lourensen
PublisherTony Lourensen
ISBN / ASINB006058M72
ISBN-13978B006058M76
Sales Rank1,074,749
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
RAMBLINGS FROM A BAGGY ARSE AUSTRALIAN ARMY CLERK DURING THOSE HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF THE VIETNAM WAR.
It follows "Shorty" a young married soldier, just before, during and after his tour of duty in "Sunny Vietnam". He spends a great deal of time in preparation of going overseas to help prevent the spread of communism. He volunteers his services, only to find that his outfit is going nowhere - so he transfers out "before the huge American juggernaut plows through Vietnam" and there is nothing more to do. It is 1966.
Circumstances find him being sent to an Australian Army Aviation group, hence further training in jungle warfare It is here he teams up with "Johnsy". Follow them on a hysterical romp from Brisbane, through Sydney and the Phillipines. "The QANTAS pilots went on strike in mid-air and chucked us off in Manila" then onwards to Saigon and to their final destination - the Australian Task Force Base at NuiDat.
Shorty describes everyday life in the camp and explains that even though he is only "a baggy arse clerk" - he still has his story to tell. So follows a collection of wonderful and bizarre tales, described graphically and in the language (and vernacular) of the day.
Non-fiction biography
It follows "Shorty" a young married soldier, just before, during and after his tour of duty in "Sunny Vietnam". He spends a great deal of time in preparation of going overseas to help prevent the spread of communism. He volunteers his services, only to find that his outfit is going nowhere - so he transfers out "before the huge American juggernaut plows through Vietnam" and there is nothing more to do. It is 1966.
Circumstances find him being sent to an Australian Army Aviation group, hence further training in jungle warfare It is here he teams up with "Johnsy". Follow them on a hysterical romp from Brisbane, through Sydney and the Phillipines. "The QANTAS pilots went on strike in mid-air and chucked us off in Manila" then onwards to Saigon and to their final destination - the Australian Task Force Base at NuiDat.
Shorty describes everyday life in the camp and explains that even though he is only "a baggy arse clerk" - he still has his story to tell. So follows a collection of wonderful and bizarre tales, described graphically and in the language (and vernacular) of the day.
Non-fiction biography
