John Rowe (author)

Early life and military

Author

• Over the course of his career, Rowe wrote six published novels and a Time-Life history book on Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War.
• In 1968, Maj. John Rowe wrote his first novel on the Vietnam War while serving in Washington, D.C. with the Defense Intelligence Agency. The book "Count Your Dead" was published by Angus & Robertson. An article on Rowe's book written by John Miles called "Soldier’s Bitter Vietnam Book" was later published in a 16 August 1968 newspaper article for The Adelaide Advertiser in Australia.
• In 2003, "Count Your Dead" was selected by the Sydney University Press for inclusion in their Classic Works series of 25 books by Australian authors both living and dead.
• In 2012, The Australian beat writer Peter Pierce wrote an article on Rowe's book "Count Your Dead" called "Kill by Kill, Name by Name". Pierce states that Rowe condemned the vacillations and complacency of Australian politics including the foreign relations and the dependence on its major allies. Rowe resigned from the army after the book was published and returned to Australia.
• Author John Rowe is an author entry in reference book "Who’s Who of Australian Writers" and Oxford Companions book series; the 2nd Edition of "The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature"

  Published books

• Count Your Dead Publisher: Angus & Robertson
• McCabe PM Publisher Collins
• The Chocolate Crucifix Publisher Wren
• The Warlords Publisher Angus & Robertson
• The Aswan Solution Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
• The Jewish Solution Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Rinehart & Winston -
• Long Live the King Publisher Stein & Day
• Long Live the King Publisher Rigby
• Vietnam, the Australian experience Publisher Time-Life