Greg Lockhart had an academic career after serving in the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam. He is author of the critically acclaimed Nation in Arms: The Origins of the People's Army of Vietnam. He has also written on Vietnamese literature and, with his wife Monique, is a translator of a number of Vietnamese writers, including those in The Light of the Capital: Three Modern Vietnamese Classics. The 2005 Glasshouse Pictures documentary film Vietnam Minefield is based on an early draft of this book. He is Honorary Historian of the Vietnam Veterans' Federation of Australia.
