Tunnel Rats: The Larrikin Aussie Legends Who Discovered the Vietcong's Secret Weapon.

Thomson, Jimmy with Sandy MacGregor.

ISBN 10: 1742374891 / ISBN 13: 9781742374895

Published by Allen and Unwin, Australia., 2011

About this Item

242 pages. Illustrated, minor spotting preliminary, slight water stained lower edges of back pages, slight wear, creased on cover.

Seller Inventory # 005496

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tunnel Rats: The Larrikin Aussie Legends Who Discovered the Vietcong's Secret Weapon.
• Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Australia.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1742374891
• ISBN 13: 9781742374895
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 0W x 0H x 0.7D inches 0 inches width by 0 inches height by 0.7 inches depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

About this title

Synopsis

The thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers of 3 Field Troop who were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam. Staring death squarely in the face every day, these young Australian Army engineers not only followed their enemy down into these unknown underground labyrinths, but matched the Vietcong's jungle warfare skills and defused thousands of their clever booby traps.
Off duty, it was a different story. The bad boys of 3 Field Troop were a boozing, brawling, bonking bunch of larrikins, who cut a swathe through the bars and brothels of Saigon, fought American Military Police to a standstill, built a secret casino and booby-trapped their own HQ to teach their officers a lesson. Thrilling, inspiring and action packed, this is the true story of the unsung heroes of Australia's war in Vietnam. Living up to their motto of "We Make and We Break," they created the legend of the Tunnel Rats.

About the Author

Jimmy Thomson is a journalist, author and screenwriter whose credits include the ABC-TV series Rain Shadow. His most recent book is Snitch: Crooked Cops and Kings Cross Crims by the Man Who Saw it All. 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 Army for thirty years, finishing as a colonel in the Reserves.