Gary McKay interviewed the men of Delta company, from the last Australian battalion that served in Vietnam. In 1993 he travelled back to Vietnam with some of them. There he met with former Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers, who shared their private views on one of the most tragic episodes in Australian military history.
This exposes the inner workings of a rifle company - how its soldiers trained for war, how they operated and fought in the war zone. It examines the basic qualities of infantry soldiering, of leadership and battlecraft. Above all else, it gives the soldiers' viewpoint of those aspects of war-fighting not found in the training pamphlets.
The author of the bestselling 'In Good Company', Gary McKay was wounded in action in Vietnam and served with many of the men in this book.
