Author: STREVENS, STEVE. Title: The Jungle Dark. He was only nineteen when he went to war.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxii, 295; 12 pages of coloured photographs, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, good copy. Sydney; Macmillan; 2015. This is the true story of Frank 'Frankie' Hunt and other soldiers of 3 Platoon, A Company, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment who became the inspiration for Redgum's 1983 hit song 'I Was Only Nineteen' - the anthem for the veterans of the Vietnam War.
Keywords: vietnam war australian military biography
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- Book number: 112404