All Day Long the Noise of Battle: An Australian Attack in Vietnam

Gerard Windsor is one of Australia's most versatile and respected writers. His publications have included two novels, three collections of short stories and essays and three volumes of memoir. His most recent books have been the novel I Have Kissed Your Lips and a set of fifty comic biographies of famous Australians, Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie. He won the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in 2005, has appeared in either The Best Australian Short Stories or The Best Australian Essays most years since the series' inception in 1998, and is represented by his fiction in the Norton Anthology of Australian Literature. All Day Long the Noise of Battle is his first published work of history. He lives in Sydney.