Deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, a five-man Australian SAS patrol walks into an ambush and loses the one man giving the orders — by every rule of war, that patrol should have broken. Instead, Viet Cong commanders watched it fight on like nothing had happened, hunting the men who'd hunted them, and reporting back with no explanation for what they'd just seen. So what did the Australians know about survival that no one else in Vietnam had figured out?

It is early 1970, in the thick green jungle of Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. Not far away sits a patrol base called Nui Dat, home to the Australian soldiers who call this land their hunting ground. This is the story of why Viet Cong commanders could never explain how the Australian SAS kept fighting even after they lost their officers. That mystery starts right here, right now, in this jungle, on this day.

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Viet Cong commanders, Australian SAS leadership, Vietnam special forces