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1 Robben Island of the Mind : Dispatches from a Cairo Prison Kevin Foster , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 397 2017; (p. 23-24)

'It’s a provocative title. Forty-two years ago, Phillip Knightley’s The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth-maker (1975) kick-started a new field of media history. Knightley’s rollicking account of journalistic connivance with political and military power from the Crimean to the Gulf Wars spared his industry nothing. The fourth estate’s serial pursuit of national self-interest, its abandonment of objectivity, truth, and morality, revealed many of our most storied war reporters as grovelling servants of the powers that be, monsters of avarice and deception whose first duty was to their own wealth and preferment. If truth was the first casualty of war, principle was prominent among the collateral damage.' (Introduction)
1 'Valiant For Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent' by Neil McDonald with Peter Brune Kevin Foster , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 390 2017; 'Chester Wilmot was blessed with the professional reporter’s principal virtues, talent, self-confidence, resilience, and luck. While his skills as a broadcaster took him to the various fronts of World War II, it was luck, as much as planning, that put him in Tobruk, Greece, and on the Kokoda Track at the precise moments to witness Australia’s armed forces in their first critical tests of the war. Yet if luck played its part in gifting him proximity to the action, it was his artistry, his ability to inform and enthral his listeners, to bring them to the ‘tip of the spear’, that transformed his accounts of, respectively, a siege, a rout, and a fighting withdrawal into epic adventures of the nation at war. When, at General Thomas Blamey’s insistence, Wilmot was stripped of his accreditation and sent home from New Guinea in November 1943, he turned this personal and professional crisis into a triumph, resurrecting his career in London where he reported on the fighting in Europe for the BBC’s nightly War Report.' (Introduction)
1 Myth Eats Man : Phillip Schuler as Catalyst Kevin Foster , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 385 2016; (p. 24-25)
— Review of Phillip Schuler : The Remarkable Life of One of Australia's Greatest War Correspondents Mark Baker , 2016 single work biography 'ho was Phillip Schuler? A war correspondent for The Age, his six-week visit to Gallipoli in July and August 1915 produced, inter alia, a few of the rare eyewitness accounts of the battle and resulted in the first extended treatment of the Gallipoli campaign: Australia in Arms (1916). Schuler also compiled a unique photographic record of some of the battlefields and the living conditions in the trenches. Later enlisting as a soldier, he served in Flanders where, in April 1917, aged twenty-seven, he was fatally wounded by a stray shell.' (Introduction)
1 Self-Publish and be Damned, Sometimes Kevin Foster , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 February 2000; (p. 11)
— Review of Night Parking Laurie Clancy , 1999 single work novel
1 Writing Against War Kevin Foster , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1992; (p. 99-103)
— Review of Earth Against Heaven : A Tiananmen Square Anthology 1990 anthology poetry
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