ALLIES & MATES: American Soldier with Australians & New Zealanders 1st signed

Description: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1995. First hardcover printing. 182 pages pages with maps on endpapers and photographs. A Very Good copy with yellow highlighter mark on upper front endpaper along with two small inked dots. Dust jacket is also near fine with light edge wear and lower front corner tip bumped. SIGNED & dated in year of publication by author, Gordon L. Steinbrook, on half-title page. Shipping---see details. Scarce signed collectible. Gordon Steinbrook was a young tenderfoot army second lieutenant, commissioned out of college, and newly married, when he received his orders for Vietnam in 1966. At that time the war was rapidly escalating: the United States hoped for a quick resolution of the conflict through massive amounts of American firepower and troop strength. Steinbrook was no ideologue; like so many of his compatriots, he saw Vietnam service as a job to be done, efficiently and quickly, and then home again as soon and as safely as possible. What elevates Steinbrook’s account into a special category was his assignment as an artillery forward observer with Australian and New Zealand allied troops.In the American national debate and hand-wringing over the Vietnam War, an often forgotten component of the war is the service of several allied contingents—Koreans, Australians, New Zealanders, Filipinos. The experience of these forces—who often participated in heavy fighting—has not been well reported or studied, not even in the countries that provided the troops. Accounts of the attitudes of these troops toward the war, and toward their ostensible Vietnamese and American allies, are a major contribution of Steinbrook’s book.

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