Robin Gerster is Associate Professor in the School of Literary, Visual & Performance Studies at Monash University. He has published widely in the areas of war and travel literatures, including the award-winning critique Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing (MUP), Hotel Asia: An Anthology of Australian Literary Travelling to 'the East' and his travel book Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (MUP). Peter Pierce is Professor of Australian Literature at James Cook University. He writes frequently for the national press; has co-edited several books including the anthology Clubbing of the Gun-fire: 101 War Poems (MUP) and the critical study Vietnam Days: Australia and the Impact of Vietnam, and is also the author of Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally's Fiction and The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety.
"'Between them, Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce are authorities on travel, war and literature. Their formidable talents are splendidly combined in this brilliantly conceived collection, which memorably evokes the pathos, humour, high drama, farce and tragedy of the "warpath".' Brian Matthews; 'Armistice Day in Paris, syphilis in Cairo, escape from Singapore. On the Warpath presents dispatches from arenas of war, told by men and - unusually - women, of Australia's military forces, that are sometimes terrible, often politically incorrect, but always compelling. Vivid reporting.' Pamela Bone"
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