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