Table of Contents

List of maps

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 A warrior in training

2 Up the Ramu

3 Balikpapan

4 Korea

5 The Third World War has started!

6 Hills are for heroes

7 Kapyong

8 Kill or be killed

9 Maryang San

10 Private, temporary corporal, temporary warrant officer, class two

11 Eyes like a cat and no nerves at all

12 Belles and bullies

13 Vietnam

14 On the trail

15 'Sneaky work': the Phoenix program

16 Kashmir interlude

17 Return to Vietnam

18 Man of Sparta

Len Opie's medals

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Andrew Faulkner is an Adelaide-based journalist and author of the highly acclaimed biography Arthur Blackburn, VC. He has been given exclusive access to Len's copious diaries and has interviewed many of Len's comrades for this book.

Reviews

Len was a soldier above soldiers.
*Keith Payne VC on Len Opie*