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The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing edited by Mark Dapin

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February 2012, no. 338

The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing edited by Mark Dapin

Viking, $39.95 hb, 472 pp, 9780670075522

The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing edited by Mark Dapin

by
February 2012, no. 338

War is one of the great paradoxes of Australia. Why should a people occupying a continent so far from the world’s trouble spots have spent so much of their history dying in often distant wars? It is one of the questions that drew me to the study of Australian history. I am little the wiser after reading this collection of Australian war writing. This is partly because editor Mark Dapin is intent simply on providing a range of Australian literary responses, and a few not so literary, to the experience of war.

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