Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan: South Vietnam, late afternoon on August 18, nineteen sixty-six - for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and
shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand
soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Main Force Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers.
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