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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Beneath the Southern Cross I Stand

Beneath the Southern Cross I Stand

Ryan, Danielle

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & OceaniaVietnam War

ISBN10: 0646853228
ISBN13: 9780646853222
Publisher: Danielle Louise Ryan
Published: Dec 20 2021
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Darryl had been digging the same hole for three hours. Just eighteen, and a long way from his home in Rockhampton, every day in the outback was the same: sweltering heat, sweat pouring, crowbar in hand, digging a hole.

Born in 1946, Darryl grew up in a time when the world was rebuilding following the devastation of World War II. The Cold War had begun. The war in Vietnam had started with tensions growing after Japan took over and aligned with the French. Communist forces had seized China and the war in Korea began.Little did Darryl know that the monotony of digging a hole was what would drive him to leave Rockhampton and join the Australian Army. That by the time he was twenty-one, the kaleidoscope of world events meant he would be joining the war in Vietnam with 60,000 other Australians in the fight against communism. He would no longer be digging holes for windmills, but digging holes to live in.

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