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Battle Cries, a series of almost 30 works is passionate and sardonic response to another war ... to the turmoil and distortion, the agony and courage, the construction and destruction, the reconstruction and deconstruction associated with war wherever it occurs in the world.

For such timeless subject matter, Durack found within abstraction a freedom to convey insights into modern warfare — insights that are highlighted by terse, ambiguous titles, a number of them famous lines from literature.