All day long the noise of battle: an Australian attack in Vietnam

Windsor takes a single Australian rifle company from 7RAR in early 1968 and examines it inside-out as it fought its grueling way through an enemy bunker system over a three-day period of the Australian war. Along with a great many sharply observed comments about the nature of combat and the relationships forged between soldiers caught up in it, he offers compelling and beautifully written analyses of the stresses and challenges of command in an Australian infantry battalion at every level from the section corporals to the unit commanding officer. If you read only one book on Australia’s war in Vietnam, this should be it.