D. M. Horner
Auteur de The Second World War, Volume 1: The Pacific
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Œuvres de D. M. Horner
High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine Thru Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five (1982) 9 exemplaires
Australia and the New World Order: From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: 1988-1991 (Official History of Australian… (2011) 7 exemplaires
Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars (Australian Army History) (2005) 6 exemplaires
Making the Australian Defence Force :The Australian Centenary History of Defence: Volume 4: (2001) 4 exemplaires
Defence supremo : Sir Frederick Shedden and the making of Australian defence policy (2000) 4 exemplaires
Strategy and Command: Issues in Australia's Twentieth-century Wars (Australian Army History Series) (2021) 3 exemplaires
The Australian Centenary History of Defence: Volume 6: Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics (The Australian… (2001) 2 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Horner, David Murray
- Date de naissance
- 1948-03-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Études
- Australian National University (PhD|History|1980)
- Professions
- army officer
historian
university professor - Organisations
- Australian Army
Australian National University - Prix et distinctions
- AM
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 31
- Membres
- 368
- Popularité
- #65,433
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 65
However, if you bear with the book through the more tedious parts, or just skim or skip them altogether, you will find some truly fascinating stories of combat operations in Borneo, Malaysia, South Vietnam and East Timor. The author interviewed many active service and retired members of the regiment and as a result the stories of the patrols in these theaters of war are written at the level of the experience of the individual soldier. Combat operations almost always consisted of patrols of no more than four or five men, staying on ops for days at a time, moving in silence for hours. The narrative of the combat patrols have that "you are there" feel to them and will be appreciated by those who wish to understand how these special forces types worked in ways so different than traditional infantry.… (plus d'informations)