PublishedMelbourne University Press, October 2012 |
ISBN9780522861785 |
FormatSoftcover, 388 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm |
A country boy from Queensland, John Cantwell signed up to the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in Iraq in 1991. He fought in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car bomb does to a marketplace crowded with women and children.
In 2010 he commanded the Australian forces in Afghanistan when ten of his soldiers were killed. He returned to Australia in 2011 to be considered for the job of chief of the Australian Army. Instead, he ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
