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Memoir

Exit Wounds: One Australian’s War on Terror by John Cantwell with Greg Bearup

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December 2012–January 2013, no. 347

Exit Wounds: One Australian’s War on Terror by John Cantwell with Greg Bearup

Melbourne University Press, $34.99 pb, 383 pp, 9780522861785

Memoir

Exit Wounds: One Australian’s War on Terror by John Cantwell with Greg Bearup

by •
December 2012–January 2013, no. 347

To go into any bookshop, if you can still find one, is to be amazed at the space devoted to militaria: endless shelves of books not just about the two world wars and Vietnam, but all wars in all times. This vicarious fascination with war echoes another phenomenon of our time: the rise of overt public respect for soldiers.

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Nick Hordern

Nick Hordern is a former diplomat and journalist. He is the co-author of two histories of crime in Sydney: Sydney Noir: The Golden Years (NewSouth, 2017) and World War Noir: Sydney’s Unpatriotic War (NewSouth, 2019). He edited, and wrote the introduction to, the first English translation of Liu Yichang’s classic 1963 novel of Hong Kong, The Drunkard (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020). His latest book, Shanghai Demimondaine (Earnshaw Books), the biography of an Australian sex worker in China in the 1930s, was published in October 2023.

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