War In Words: The Halstead Armoury Of Australian War Writing (2004) By Matthew Richardson
Foreword by General Peter Cosgrove
ifty pieces of Australian War writing from the Boer War to Vietnam.
Australian writers have excelled since colonial times, in presenting war in all its aspects, drawing character as it emerges under the pressures of life and death struggle. Arranged historically are poems and fine prose, from Furphy's sardonic story of the Arrow War, to post-Vietnam reflections on the aftermath of conflict, their insights are the key to an outlook on war which has not developed in other cultures.
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