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angek98's review
5.0
All Along the Watchtower is a politically charged recount of an Australia revolutionary during the 60's, and the Vietnamese war.
Michael Hyde wrote this memoir to fill the gaping hole of stories from the 60's on the revolutionary anti-war stance of US imperialism in Australian literature.
This memoir opened my eyes to a lot of the atrocities committed by the West which was somehow glossed over in my VCE History studies, as well as being a very engrossing read (although somewhat marred by fact that every single female character was described like a tasty morsel of food, but thats beside the point).
Hyde does seem to come across as a bit of a 'tankie', though. Maybe that was just my reading of it?
Michael Hyde wrote this memoir to fill the gaping hole of stories from the 60's on the revolutionary anti-war stance of US imperialism in Australian literature.
This memoir opened my eyes to a lot of the atrocities committed by the West which was somehow glossed over in my VCE History studies, as well as being a very engrossing read (although somewhat marred by fact that every single female character was described like a tasty morsel of food, but thats beside the point).
Hyde does seem to come across as a bit of a 'tankie', though. Maybe that was just my reading of it?
angek22's review
5.0
All Along the Watchtower is a politically charged recount of an Australia revolutionary during the 60's, and the Vietnamese war.
Michael Hyde wrote this memoir to fill the gaping hole of stories from the 60's on the revolutionary anti-war stance of US imperialism in Australian literature.
This memoir opened my eyes to a lot of the atrocities committed by the West which was somehow glossed over in my VCE History studies, as well as being a very engrossing read (although somewhat marred by fact that every single female character was described like a tasty morsel of food, but thats beside the point).
Hyde does seem to come across as a bit of a 'tankie', though. Maybe that was just my reading of it?
Michael Hyde wrote this memoir to fill the gaping hole of stories from the 60's on the revolutionary anti-war stance of US imperialism in Australian literature.
This memoir opened my eyes to a lot of the atrocities committed by the West which was somehow glossed over in my VCE History studies, as well as being a very engrossing read (although somewhat marred by fact that every single female character was described like a tasty morsel of food, but thats beside the point).
Hyde does seem to come across as a bit of a 'tankie', though. Maybe that was just my reading of it?
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