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1 The Box : A Personal Account of Imprisonment Nick Hordern , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 11)
— Review of An Unlikely Prisoner : How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar's Most Notorious Jail Sean Turnell , 2023 single work autobiography

'Sean Turnell is an Australian economist who was detained by Myanmar’s military regime from February 2021 until November 2022. An Unlikely Prisoner, his account of the ordeal, has quite a personal tone as he relates his struggle with unjust imprisonment by a regime whose hallmark was ‘a mix of the needlessly brutal, the petty, and the incompetent’. This personal story is also mixed with politics, for Turnell has an insider’s view of Myanmar’s ongoing struggle for freedom, one of the great dramas of modern Asian history.' (Introduction)          

1 Swimming between Islands : An Awkward Account of Rescue Nick Hordern , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 460 2023; Australian Book Review , April no. 463 2024; (p. 41)
— Review of Saving Lieutenant Kennedy Brett Mason , 2023 single work biography 'In August 1943, John F. Kennedy, then aged twenty-six, was rescued from the threat of Japanese captivity – or worse – by a few brave Solomon Islanders, in an operation coordinated by the Australian naval officer Reg Evans. Evans was one of the Royal Australian Navy’s ‘Coastwatchers’, intelligence collectors based perilously behind Japanese lines.' 

(Introduction)          

1 Lost Cause Nick Hordern , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 389 2017; (p. 58) ‘The idea that the world faces a second Cold War started out as hyperbole, but by 2016 it was sounding increasingly plausible. For more than a decade, Moscow, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, had been waging a diplomatic, political, and military campaign to restore Russian power – in the Caucasus, in Ukraine, and in Syria. In the West this has usually been portrayed as unprovoked aggression, but Tony Kevin takes the opposing view. It is the West, he argues, which has behaved aggressively towards Moscow.’ (Introduction)
1 Grand Strategic Blindness Nick Hordern , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2012 - January 2013 no. 347 2012; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Exit Wounds : One Australian's War on Terror John Cantwell , 2012 single work autobiography
1 Talking the e-Talk Nick Hordern , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 341 2012; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Class Act : A Life of Creighton Burns John Tidey , 2012 single work biography
1 An Oblique Universe Nick Hordern , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 338 2012; (p. 19-20)
— Review of The Hall of Uselessness Simon Leys , 2011 selected work essay
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