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  1. Highways to a War is a Miles Franklin Award -winning novel by Australian author Christopher Koch. [1] In an interview in 2000, Koch noted that this novel, and his later work Out of Ireland, formed a diptych called Beware of the Past. [2]

    • Christopher Koch
    • 1995
  2. Jan 1, 2001 · Highways to a War was written for the generation that lived and knew the Vietnam War and the Cambodian genocide. Being a work of the mid 1990s, its readership was being replaced by a younger generation or a society that had turned its back on the turmoil of Southeast Asia in the 1960s-1970s and focused on the good times of the 1990s.

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    • Paperback
  3. Highways to a War is a story of intense relationships forged in a dangerous and hallucinatory land that continues to haunt the American soul. “An absorbing, deeply moving . . . tale of love and heroism. . . . The evocation of the Cambodian landscape . . . is truly haunting.”—Kirkus Reviews

    • Paperback
  4. Dec 1, 2012 · The brilliant companion volume to OUT OF IRELAND. Winner of the 1996 Miles Franklin Award. When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. the search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.

  5. Jun 1, 1996 · Highways to a War is a story of intense relationships forged in a dangerous and hallucinatory land that continues to haunt the American soul. “An absorbing, deeply moving . . . tale of love and heroism. . . . The evocation of the Cambodian landscape . . . is truly haunting.”—

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    • 1995
    • Christopher Koch
    • Christopher J. Koch
  6. Highways to a war by Koch, C. J. (Christopher J.), 1932-2013. Publication date 1995 Topics Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction, War photographers -- Fiction, Missing ...

  7. Highways to a War is a story of intense relationships forged in a dangerous and hallucinatory land that continues to haunt the American soul. “An absorbing, deeply moving . . . tale of love and heroism. . . . The evocation of the Cambodian landscape . . . is truly haunting.”—Kirkus Reviews