Vietnam Fragments is a rare collection of impressions, reactions, feelings and fears-the often spell-binding personal experiences of Australians who saw active service in the second Indo-China War. This was Australia's longest war. What was it really like for the fifty thousand Australians who served between 1962 and 1972?

Gary McKay, himself a Vietnam veteran, conducted extensive interviews with over a hundred veterans and their families in order to build up a picture of their war. He spoke to nurses and doctors, Qantas cabin crew and pilots, men who had served with the Army, Air Force and Navy in helicopters, artillery batteries, armoured units, maintenance divisions, and ships carrying troops.

Vietnam Fragments is not another story of the infantry slogging through the jungle—it goes beyond the combat and into the many units and organisations that fought with and supported those men.

Some of the people interviewed had never spoken of their experiences to anyone before. Their candid recollections make Vietnam Fragments a compelling read and an invaluable oral history of Australia's war in Vietnam.